Address Aggregation In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers Current Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) routing protocols operate with networks as flat address spaces, treating all nodes in the network as independent peers. By taking advantage of these natural groupings, there is an opportunity to optimize the...
[August 13, 2007, 15:14]
Improving TCP-Vegas Performance Over MANET Routing Protocols
White Papers Recently, IETF MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Network) working group has standardized the reactive and proactive MANET routing protocols. In addition, work on using TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) to provide reliable data transmission has been performed...
[December 21, 2007, 0:01]
Energy Efficient Connected Clusters For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers A Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) is a wireless infrastuctureless network with mobile nodes. Clustering is a common basis for building higher level applications for such networks. The merit of a clustered decomposition depends on the application that...
[August 13, 2007, 8:09]
Robustness And Reliability For Virtual Topologies In Wireless Multihop Access Networks
White Papers Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANet) are a spontaneous collection of mobile terminals. An hybrid network is a MANet connected to Internet via an Access Point (AP). This paper proposes to organize MANet and hybrid networks through a virtual topology.
[August 10, 2007, 11:28]
Performance Evaluation Of Approximation Algorithms For Multipoint Relay Selection
White Papers In Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET), the selection of Multipoint Relays provides an efficient routing scheme for efficient broadcast and shortest-path unicast. As such a selection is NP-hard, a heuristic has been designed and effectively implemented...
[August 10, 2007, 11:24]
A TDMA-Based Bandwidth Reservation Protocol For QoS Routing In A Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Network
White Papers This paper considers the bandwidth reservation problem in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) to support QoS (quality-of-service) routing. The paper approaches this problem by assuming a common channel shared by all hosts under a TDMA (Time Division...
[July 20, 2004, 3:00]
A Two-Tier Heterogeneous Mobile Ad Hoc Network Architecture And Its Load-Balance Routing Problem
White Papers The mobile ad hoc network (MANET) has attracted a lot of interest recently. However, most of the existing works have assumed a stand-alone MANET. This paper proposes a two-tier, heterogeneous MANET architecture, which can support Internet access.
[June 28, 2004, 3:15]
Detailed OFDM Modeling In Network Simulation Of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers In mobile ad hoc network (MANET) studies, it is imperative to use highly detailed device models as they provide high layer protocols with good prediction of underlying wireless communication performance.
[November 2, 2004, 2:00]
A Cooperative Intrusion Detection System For Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers Mobile Ad hoc NETworking (MANET) has become an exciting and important technology in recent years because of the rapid proliferation of wireless devices. This paper reports the progress in developing Intrusion Detection (ID) capabilities for MANET.
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
A Survey On Attacks And Countermeasures In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers The success of Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET) strongly depends on people's confidence in its security. However, the characteristics of MANET pose both challenges and opportunities in achieving security goals, such as confidentiality, authentication...
[May 10, 2006, 1:00]
A Distributed Size-Bounded Multi-Hop Clustering For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers To make the operations of a MANET more efficient, one approach is to construct and maintain a control structure. During the last few years there has been a rapid development in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs).
[August 10, 2007, 10:47]
Mobile Ad-Hoc Intern-Domain Networking
White Papers After nearly three decades of work on mobile ad-hoc networking it is starting to see a convergence of better radios and better understanding of performance needs for MANET routing schemes, delivering working networks.
[August 10, 2007, 10:49]
JMS On Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
White Papers The resulting JMS solution simplifies not only the construction of MANET applications but also the re-deployment of any existing JMS applications into a MANET context. This paper describes the design and implementation of a pure Java JMS solution...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Multipath Routing In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Issues And Challenges
White Papers MANET nodes are typically distinguished by their limited power, processing, and memory resources as well as high degree of mobility. Thus routing is a crucial issue to the design of a MANET. Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) consist of a collection...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
Mobile Ad Hoc Networking: Imperatives And Challenges
White Papers Recently, the introduction of new technologies such as the Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11 and Hyperlan are helping enable eventual commercial MANET deployments outside the military domain. Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) represent complex distributed...
[March 22, 2006, 0:01]
EZCab: A Cab Booking Application Using Short-Range Wireless Communication
White Papers This paper presents EZCab, a real-life ubiquitous computing application built over MANET, which allows people to book nearby cabs in densely populated urban areas using their cell phones or PDAs equipped with short-range wireless network interfaces.
[March 17, 2006, 0:01]
Bluetooth-Based Ad-Hoc Networks For Voice Transmission
White Papers As the existing MANET routing protocols that emerged out of the work of the IETF MANET WG (like AODV, DSR etc.cannot be directly used to work with Bluetooth, the paper presents a new routing protocol called Bluetooth Scatternet Routing (BSR) that...
[August 11, 2005, 6:00]
ASAP: An Adaptive QoS Protocol For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers RSVP, are not applicable in MANETs, because they cannot cope with MANET's highly dynamic topology. However, to support QoS in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) is more challenging than in fixed and last-hop wireless access networks.
[July 17, 2008, 0:00]
On The Use Of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks For The Support Of Ubiquitous Computing
White Papers This paper presents a 'proof of concept' experiment on the use of the Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 wireless technology to build a MANET which provides network support to a context-aware application. Communication plays a fundamental role in this field...
[September 15, 2005, 3:00]
The Need For Cross-Layer Service Discovery In MANETs
White Papers Service selection has a crucial effect on wireless multi-hop ad hoc network (MANET) performance. This paper presents a novel cross-layer architecture for service discovery, selection and rediscovery in MANETs that closely integrates service...
[September 15, 2005, 0:00]

