In the near future microprocessors will be found almost everywhere from cellular phones to washing machines and cars. Once these are connected via a (wireless) communication channel to each other and possibly to already existing static computers this could form an extremely dynamic wireless network which may not have access to an infrastructure or centralized administration. Such a network is o...

An ad-hoc network is a collection of two or more devices equipped with wireless communications and having networking capability. The devices in the network can communicate with another node that is immediately within their radio range or one that is outside their range. The intermediate node is used to relay or forward the packet from the source to the destination. An Ad-hoc Network is a self-o...