AD HOC Networking

Description

“Ad hoc” networks are wireless, mobile networks that can be set up anywhere and anytime–outside the Internet or another preexisting network infrastructure. The field has tremendous commercial and military potential, supporting applications such as mobile conferencing outside the office, battlefield communications, and embedded sensor devices that automate everyday functions, among others.

Key Features

• The complete guide to building ad hoc wireless networks that come together “on-the-fly”!
• Wireless communications without routers, base stations, or Internet Service Providers.
• Key applications: conferencing, home networking, emergency services, Personal Area Networks, Bluetooth, and more.
• Addressing the key challenges of ad hoc networking: Power management, scalability, and more.

Table of Contents

1. Ad Hoc Networking: An Introduction.
2. A DoD Perspective on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.
3. DSDV: Routing over a Multihop Wireless Network of Mobile Computers.
4. Cluster-Based Networks.
5. DSR: The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.
6. The Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance-Vector Protocol.
7. ZRP: A Hybrid Framework for Routing in Ad Hoc Networks.
8. Link Reversal Routing.
9. The Effects of Beaconing on the Battery Life of Ad Hoc Mobile Computers.
10. Bandwidth-Efficient Link-State Routing in Wireless Networks.
11. Summary and Future Work.

Author Biography

Charles E. Perkins is a Research Fellow at Nokia Research Center investigating mobile wireless networking and dynamic configuration protocols. He is the editor for several ACM and IEEE journals for areas relating to wireless networking. Charles has served on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and on various committees for the National Research Council. He has authored a book on Mobile IP and has published a number of papers and award-winning articles in the areas of mobile networking, resource discovery, and automatic configuration for mobile computers.