Mobile ad hoc networking has been a fast growing research area for the last few years. The need for a network when there is no fixed infrastructure is no more limited to military and emergency applications; ad hoc networks can include private and public applications as well. In ad hoc networks, wireless mobile computing devices can perform critical network topology functions that are normally t...

An ad hoc wireless network consists of mobile networks which creates an underlying architecture for communication without the help of traditional fixed-position routers. Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) is a routing protocol used for Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET). Nevertheless, the architecture must maintain communication routes although the hosts are mobile and they have limited transmi...

A wireless ad hoc network is a decentralized type of wireless network. It is a type of temporary computer-tocomputer connection. It is a spontaneous network which includes mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET), vehicular adhoc networks (VANET) and Flying ad-hoc networks (FANET). A MANET is a network that has many free or autonomous nodes often composed of mobile devices that can operate without strict...

Mobile entities with wireless links are able to form a mobile ad-hoc network. Such an infrastructureless network does not have to be administrated. However, self-organizing principles have to be applied to deal with upcoming problems, e.g. information dissemination. These kinds of problems are not easy to tackle, requiring complex algorithms. Moreover, the usefulness of pure ad-hoc networks is ...

Networks have become an integral part of all communications, associations, businesses, services, government/public organizations and human interactions around the globe. Emergence of technologies and dynamism of user needs & access pattern of network resources have shifted paradigm to wireless ad-hoc network infrastructure supporting mobile devices. Ad-hoc networking means building spontaneous ...

Ad hoc networks are multi-hop wireless networks without a pre-installed infrastructure. Such networks are widely used in military applications and in emergency situations as they permit the establishment of a communication network at very short notice with a very low cost. Video is very sensitive for packet loss and wireless ad-hoc networks are error prone due to node mobility and weak links. H...

Adaptive Quality of Service for Wireless Ad hoc Networks Seoung-Bum Lee This thesis contributes toward the design of a new adaptive quality of service (QOS) paradigm for wireless ad hoc networks. We address some of the key performance problems in the broader realm of wireless ad hoc networks, including mobile ad hoc networks and emerging wireless ad hoc sensor networks. Wireless ad hoc networks...

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) are pervasive, self-configuring, infrastructure-free, and ubiquitous devoid of any centralized authority. Mobile ad hoc networks have proved their efficiency in the deployment for different fields, but they are highly vulnerable to security attacks which is particularly challenging in wireless networks. The existing research that has been carried out provides auth...

Because of their good support and easy deployment, wireless ad-hoc networks are currently widely being used for many industrial or military applications. Like other communication networks, environmental conditions can have considerable impact on the performance of wireless ad-hoc networks. Temperature is a good example which results in thermal agitation of the charge carriers. Consequently, we ...