This article is a survey on the current status and direction of research on ad hoc networking.
We categorize the ongoing research and outline the major challenges which have to be …

Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of two or more devices or nodes or
terminals with wireless communications and networking capability that communicate with …

An ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary
network without the use of any existing network infrastructure or centralized administration …

An ad hoc wireless network, or simply an ad hoc network, consists of a collection of
geographically distributed nodes that communicate with one other over a wireless medium …

Wireless networking enables two or more computers to communicate using standard
network protocols without network cables. Since their emergence in the 1970s, wireless …

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) represent complex distributed systems that comprise
wireless mobile nodes that can freely and dynamically self organize into arbitrary and …

Mobile ad hoc networks are infrastructure-free, pervasive, ubiquitous and without any
centralized authority. These unique characteristics, combined with security threats, demand …

Wireless mobile ad hoc networks consist of mobile nodes interconnected by wireless multi‐
hop communication paths. Unlike conventional wireless networks, ad hoc networks have no …

The “first wave” of wireless ad hoc routing protocols was heavily influenced by the routing
algorithms used in wired networks. However, their overheads due to topology changes and …

An ad hoc networkis a collwtion of wirelessmobilenodes dynamically forminga
temporarynetworkwithoutthe use of anyexistingnetworkirrfrastructureor …