Ad Hoc Wireless Networks - Architectures and Protocols  (English, Hardcover, Murthy C. Siva Ram)

Appropriate for all communications engineering courses that cover ad hoc wireless network planning, design, deployment, or management.

Ad hoc wireless networks bring together mobile devices without complex infrastructure, setup, or administration-and they have enormous commercial and military potential. Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols is the first book to address every major issue related to their design and performance. Leading researchers C. Siva Ram Murthy and B. S. Manoj present state-of-the-art techniques and solutions, and support them with more than 200 clear examples and end-of-chapter problems. Murthy and Manoj cover media access, transport, routing, and multicasting; QoS provisioning, self-organization, security, energy management, service discovery, and much more. They offer new solutions designed to simplify deployment and improve scalability. Along the way, they introduce many topics found in no other book, including Wi-Fi ad hoc networks, hybrid wireless architectures, ultra wideband ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, and ad hoc network pricing techniques. This book is part of the Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies Series, Theodore Rappaport, Series Editor. Rappaport recently praised it as “the finest I have seen on the topic.”

Salient Features

• Broad, deep, state-of-the-art coverage-Offers the most thorough and up-to-date coverage available for planning, designing, and implementing ad hoc wireless networks.
• Gives students access to the broadest array of ad hoc wireless solutions available.
• 200+ easy-to-understand examples and end-of-chapter review questions-Teaches through example, and provides extensive opportunities for review at the end of every chapter.
• Helps students understand essential concepts by seeing how they are actually implemented in practice; and provides constant feedback to ensure that students are truly mastering the material.
• Advanced coverage available nowhere else-Introduces research and techniques covered in no other book, including Wi-Fi ad hoc networks, hybrid wireless architectures, ultra wideband ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, and more.
• Prepares students to develop and implement wireless ad hoc networks using technologies and principles that will be current for many years.
• In-depth coverage of ad hoc network protocols-Covers ad hoc network protocols for media access, transport, routing, multi-casting, and more.
• Enables students to successfully participate in any protocol-related role on any ad hoc wireless network design project.
• Thorough coverage of building reliable, high-performance networks-Covers QoS, provisioning, security, scalability, pricing, and much more.
• Helps students understand the real-world issues associated with building and deploying cost-effective, profitable ad hoc wireless networks.