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(More customer reviews)Boukerche has amassed a collection of papers about the status of MANETs - Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. These deal with mobile nodes that are NOT cellphones. While there has been a vast amount of research and development on cellular radio networks, the book explains that these have huge simplifications compared to the problems contemplated by the book. A cellular network has fixed basestations, that are not power limited, and which do all the routing. A MANET consists of nodes that typically are all moving, and there might be no hierarchy of supernodes that can do the routing. Hence each node has to somehow have some routing ability.
Another limitation of a MANET is that the nodes are often severely power limited. So transmission range, bandwidth and processing ability are crimped.
Given all this, it is remarkable that any progress could even be made for MANETs. Yet the book shows that considerable work has been done. The use cases include warfare, where fixed nodes might be targets for the enemy.
Another important case is a VANET - a Vehicle Ad Hoc Network. Imagine cars flowing down a road. They could one day be able to communicate with each other, perhaps to warn of congestion and to aid routing. But many key questions remain unresolved. The chapters on VANET suggest that this topic is highly undeveloped. Which might be an opportunity for you to contribute.
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Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)Learn the fundamental algorithms and protocols for wireless and mobile ad hoc networks
Advances in wireless networking and mobile communication technologies, coupled with the proliferation of portable computers, have led to development efforts for wireless and mobile ad hoc networks. This book focuses on several aspects of wireless ad hoc networks, particularly algorithmic methods and distributed computing with mobility and computation capabilities. It covers everything readers need to build a foundation for the design of future mobile ad hoc networks:
Establishing an efficient communication infrastructure
Robustness control for network-wide broadcast
The taxonomy of routing algorithms
Adaptive backbone multicast routing
The effect of inference on routing
Routing protocols in intermittently connected mobile ad hoc networks and delay tolerant networks
Transport layer protocols
ACK-thinning techniques for TCP in MANETs
Power control protocols
Power saving in solar powered WLAN mesh networks
Reputation and trust-based systems
Vehicular ad hoc networks
Cluster interconnection in 802.15.4 beacon enabled networks
The book is complemented with a set of exercises that challenge readers to test their understanding of the material. Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks is appropriate as a self-study guide for electrical engineers, computer engineers, network engineers, and computer science specialists. It also serves as a valuable supplemental textbook in computer science, electrical engineering, and network engineering courses at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels.
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