Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a group of mobile nodes which communicates with each other without any supporting infrastructure. Routing in MANET is extremely challenging because of MANETs dynamic features, its limited bandwidth and power energy. Nature-inspired algorithms (swarm intelligence) such as ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms have shown to be a good technique for developing ro...

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a collection of wireless devices moving in seemingly random directions and communicating with one another without the aid of an established infrastructure. To extend the reachability of a node, the other nodes in the network act as routers. Several intrusion detection techniques (IDTs) proposed for mobile ad hoc networks rely on each node passively monitoring ...

In wireless ad-hoc networks, the participating wireless stations use a routing protocol called as Dynamic Source Routing (DSR). Such networks are highly vulnerable to (packet) routing misbehavior which is generally due to malware, faulty or compromised stations. For such networks, the traditional way of implementing firewalls at switches, routers or gateways and encryption software are not suff...

The emergence of mobile ad hoc sensor networks has brought new challenges to traditional network design. This paper focuses on the study at the application layer. In specific, it compares the performance of two distributed computing paradigms, the client/server-based paradigm and the mobile-agent-based paradigm, through mathematical modeling and simulation. The differences between the two compu...

A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is usually assumed to be homogeneous, where each mobile node shares the same radio capacity. However, a homogeneous ad hoc network suffers from poor scalability. Recent research has demonstrated its performance bottleneck through both theoretical analysis and simulation experiments and testbed measurements. Poor scalability is due to the fact that in ad hoc netwo...

We conduct a comparative experimental analysis of three well known media access protocols: 802.11, CSMA, and MACA for wireless radio networks. Only static ad-hoc networks are considered. The experimental analysis was carried out using GloMoSim : a tool for simulating wireless networks. The main focus of experiments was to study how (i) the size of the network, (ii) number of open connections, (...

The successful operation of a mobile ad hoc network depends on cooperation of the nodes in providing services to each other. Nodes act both as terminals and information relays, and participate in a common routing protocol, such as Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) [13]. The network is vulnerable due to faulty or malicious nodes. Misbehavior detection systems aim at removing this vulnerability [1], [...

Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a multihop wireless network in which any node can connect to any other node other node without a centralized infrastructure. The nodes participating in a MANET operate both as hosts and as routers. TCP is mainly developed for wired networks and it is required to adapt the famous protocol to work perfectly in wireless networks.TCP implements both flow control and...

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