A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a spontaneous network that can be established with no fixed infrastructure. This means that all its nodes behave as routers and take part in its discovery and maintenance of routes to other nodes in the network. Its routing protocol has to be able to cope with the new challenges that a MANET creates such as nodes mobility, security maintenance, quality of serv...

Inexpensive wireless network connectivity for mobile users as pedestrian or car drivers becomes more and more demanded. But using common 802.11 WLAN hardware for building citywide wireless mesh networks for mobile users or inter-vehicular networks is very challenging, because of the fast changing topology and the limited communication range. In networks with very fast changing topologies, flood...

The past few decades have heralded huge advances in the deployment and applications of wireless technologies, as evidenced by the widespread use of cell phones and the plethora of wireless LANs and ad hoc sensor networks, to name but a few. The focus of research and investment in these technologies has largely been directed to high density domains, where large numbers of people or devices can e...

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been regarded as a distinguished Ad Hoc Network that can be used to fulfil multiple tasks and applications. Since a WSN consists hundreds of small size, low cost and battery powered sensor nodes. These nodes have the event sensing capabilities, data processing capabilities. Number of routing protocols has been implemented to perform routing in these networks. I...