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Book Description

Practical design and performance solutions for every ad hoc wireless network

Ad Hoc Wireless Networks comprise mobile devices that use wireless transmission for communication. They can be set up anywhere and any time because they eliminate the complexities of infrastructure setup and central administration-and they have enormous commercial and military potential. Now, there's a book that addresses every major issue related to their design and performance. Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols presents state-of-the-art techniques and solutions, and supports them with easy-to-understand examples. The book starts off with the fundamentals of wireless networking (wireless PANs, LANs, MANs, WANs, and wireless Internet) and goes on to address such current topics as Wi-Fi networks, optical wireless networks, and hybrid wireless architectures. Coverage includes:

  • Medium access control, routing, multicasting, and transport protocols

  • QoS provisioning, energy management, security, multihop pricing, and much more

  • In-depth discussion of wireless sensor networks and ultra wideband technology

  • More than 200 examples and end-of-chapter problems

  • Ad Hoc Wireless Networks is an invaluable resource for every network engineer, technical manager, and researcher designing or building ad hoc wireless networks.

    Table of Contents

    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright Page
    3. CONTENTS
    4. Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies Series
    5. About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
    6. PREFACE
    7. Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
    8. Chapter 2. WIRELESS LANS AND PANS
    9. Chapter 3. WIRELESS WANS AND MANS
    10. Chapter 4. WIRELESS INTERNET
    11. Chapter 5. AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS
    12. Chapter 6. MAC PROTOCOLS FOR AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS
    13. Chapter 7. ROUTING PROTOCOLS FOR AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS
    14. Chapter 8. MULTICAST ROUTING IN AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS
    15. Chapter 9. TRANSPORT LAYER AND SECURITY PROTOCOLS FOR AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS
    16. Chapter 10. QUALITY OF SERVICE IN AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS
    17. Chapter 11. ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS
    18. Chapter 12. WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
    19. Chapter 13. HYBRID WIRELESS NETWORKS
    20. Chapter 14. RECENT ADVANCES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
    21. ABBREVIATIONS
    22. INDEX
    23. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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