About the Book:

Features:

• Covers MAC layer, routing, multicast, and transport layer protocols
• Examines quality of services and energy management
• Presents mobility models for multi-hop ad hoc networks
• Addresses cross-layer design issues
• Explores recent developments in the field, including sensor networks, personal area networks (PANs), smart dress, and vehicular ad hoc networks

Summary:

The military, the research community, emergency services, and industrial environments all rely on ad hoc mobile wireless networks because of their simple infrastructure and minimal central administration. Now in its second edition, Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks: Principles, Protocols, and Applications explains the concepts, mechanism, design, and performance of these highly valued systems.

Following an overview of wireless network fundamentals, the book explores MAC layer, routing, multicast, and transport layer protocols for ad hoc mobile wireless networks. Next, it examines quality of service and energy management systems. Additional chapters cover mobility models for multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks as well as cross-layer design issues.

Exploring Bluetooth, IrDA (Infrared Data Association), HomeRF, WiFi, WiMax, Wireless Internet, and Mobile IP, the book contains appropriate examples and problems at the end of each chapter to illustrate each concept. This second edition has been completely updated with the latest technology and includes a new chapter on recent developments in the field, including sensor networks, personal area networks (PANs), smart dress, and vehicular ad hoc networks.

Self-organized, self-configured, and self-controlled, ad hoc mobile wireless networks e book contains appropriate examples and problems at the end of each chapter to illustrate each concept. This second edition has been completely updated with the latest technology and includes a new chapter on recent developments in the field, including sensor networks, personal area networks (PANs), smart dress, and vehicular ad hoc networks.

Self-organized, self-configured, and self-controlled, ad hoc mobile wireless networks will continue   to be valued for a range of applications, as they can be set up and deployed anywhere and anytime. This volume captures the current state of the field as well as upcoming challenges awaiting researchers.

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About the Author:

Subir Kumar Sarkar, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He completed his B. Tech. and M. Tech. from the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata.  He holds a Ph.D. (Tech.) degree from the University of Calcutta in microelectronics. His present fields of interest include the application of soft computing tools in simulation of device models, high-frequency and low-power-consuming devices and their parameter optimization, networking, and mobile communication. He has authored two textbooks, Optical fiber and Fiber Optic Communication System and Operational Amplifier and Their Applications (Published by S. Chand and Company Private Limited, New Delhi).

T. G. Basavaraju is a professor and head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Bangalore, India. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Kuvempu University and master’s degree in engineering from Bangalore University. He has worked for Motorola, Axes Technologies, and Samsung India Software Operations as a software engineer. His areas of interest include performance analysis and evaluation of routing protocols in ad hoc wireless networks.