Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are useful in environment where fixed network infrastructure is unavailable. To function normally, MANETs demand an efficient and distributed medium access control (MAC) protocol. However, characteristics of MANETs such as radio link vulnerability, mobility, limited power pose great challenges on MAC design. This paper surveys the recent advances in MAC design fo...

In recent years mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have become a very popular research topic. By providing communications in the absence of a fixed infrastructure MANETs are an attractive technology for many applications such as rescue operations, tactical operations, environmental monitoring, conferences, and the like. However, this flexibility introduces new security risks. Since prevention tech...

Many researchers consider wireless sensor networks (WSNs) as a special case of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). Although WSNs do share some similarities with MANETs, WSNs are very different from MANETs and have many unique research issues. I argue that lessons learnt from research in MANETs are of little use when studying WSNs. This talk will address the major differences between MANETs and WSN...

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are becoming more essential to wireless communications due to growing popularity of mobile devices. A node in MANETs could act as a router while having also the possibility of being the sender or receiver of information. MANETs offer the freedom to use mobile devices and move independently of the location of base stations (and outside their coverage) with the hel...

Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are dynamic networks populated by mobile stations. Stations in MANETs are usually laptops, PDAs or mobile phones. These devices feature Bluetooth and/or IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) network interfaces and communicate in a decentralized manner. Mobility is a key feature of MANETs. Because of their high cost and their lack of flexibility of such networks, experimentation is ...

In this chapter, two new attacks are introduced in MANETs. The CIA in Mobile Ad hoc networks (MANETs) has been successfully eliminated in Wireless Sensor networks, but in MANETs the legitimate node is also reported as a malicious node (Farah Kandah et al 2011). In CIA, an adversary utilizes a colluding attack in MANETs by injecting malicious nodes in the network and hiding their identities from...

Simulation and emulation are popular means for evaluating wireless Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) protocols. Since MANETs are highly dependant on their physical environment, these techniques offer only a partial understanding of factors that may influence performance. Deploying real-life MANETs is therefore an indispensable complementary step for the advancement of MANETs. This paper presents ...

Inter-domain routing is an important component to allow interoperation among heterogeneous network domains operated by different organizations. Although interdomain routing has been extensively studied in the Internet, it remains relatively unexplored in the Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) space. In MANETs, the inter-domain routing problem is challenged by: (1) dynamic network topology, and (2)...

Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs) are autonomously structured multi-hop wireless links in peer to peer fashion without aid of any infrastructure network. In MANETs network topology is dynamic, as nodes are mobile. Due to this dynamic topology and multi-hop environment data availability in MANETs is low. Caching of frequently accessed data in ad hoc networks is a potential technique that can improv...