Description
The authoritative guide to the state-of-the-art in ad hoc wireless networking. -- Covers routing, service discovery, multicasting, power conservation, and much more. -- Includes a complete prototype implementation with field trial performance results. -- Introduces key applications for home, business, auto, and defense. "Ad hoc" wireless networks eliminate the complexities of infrastructure setup and administration, enabling devices to create and join networks "on the fly" -- anywhere, anytime, for virtually any application. The field is rapidly coming of age, reflecting powerful advances in protocols, systems, and real-world implementation experience. In this book, one of the field's leading researchers brings together these advances in a single comprehensive tutorial. Dr. C. K. Toh begins by identifying the key challenges facing implementers of ad hoc networks, including device heterogeneity, diverse traffic profiles, mobility, and power conservation. He presents today's best routing protocols for ad hoc networks, including Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) and Associativity Based Routing (ABR). Next, Dr. Toh presents in-depth coverage of ad hoc wireless network performance, drawing upon results from the latest field trials. He introduces new approaches to service discovery, advanced support for multicast communications, and the role of Bluetooth and WAP in ad hoc networks. The book contains detailed application coverage, ranging from home and car to office and battlefield. It presents a complete implementation scenario, and introduces several of the field's leading projects, from Motorola's PIANO platform to UC Berkeley's "Smart Dust" and EPFL's "Terminodes."
