Ad Hoc Networking

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.

"Ad hoc networking" enables wireless devices to network with each other as needed, even when access to the Internet is unavailable. It enables a wide range of powerful applications, from instant conferencing between notebook PC users to emergency and military services that must perform in the harshest conditions. In this book, the fields leading researchers present todays newest, most sophisticated techniques for making network applications available anytime, anywhere. They present state-of-the-art design and implementation techniques designed to instantly network a wide variety of mobile, wireless devices without access to routers, base stations, or Internet Service Providers. Learn how ad hoc networks utilize existing IP addresses, but require new protocol engineering. Understand cluster-based networks, Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocols, Ad Hoc Routing Protocols, reconfigurable wireless and other approaches. Finally, review each leading application for ad hoc networking, including mobile conferencing, home networking, emergency/disaster services, Personal Area Networks (PANs), Bluetooth integration, and embedded, military, and automotive applications.

Charles E. Perkins, editor, is at the Nokia Research Center, and a world-recognized authority on ad hoc networking. The ad hoc networking techniques presented here are written by their creators and inventors, including Scott Corson, Jim Freebersyser, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Zygrnunt Haas, David B. Johnson, Barry M. Leiner and Martha Steenstrup.