06-02-2012, 01:53 PM
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Acknowledgements
Many figures, slides and reference citations are taken from Nitin Vaidya’s MobiCom’2000 tutorial
Nitin’s tutorial is available online at http://cs.tamu.edu/~vaidya/seminars
Outline
Introduction
Medium Access Control
Routing (unicast)
Reactive Protocols
Proactive Protocols
Hybrid Protocols
Transport Issues
Summary and Conclusions
Wireless Networks
Need: Access computing and communication services, on the move
Infrastructure-based Networks
traditional cellular systems (base station infrastructure)
Wireless LANs
Infrared (IrDA) or radio links (Wavelan)
very flexible within the reception area; ad-hoc networks possible
low bandwidth compared to wired networks (1-10 Mbit/s)
Ad hoc Networks
useful when infrastructure not available, impractical, or expensive
military applications, rescue, home networking
