Single-hop ad hoc networks just interconnect devices that are within the same transmission range.

This limitation can be overcome by exploiting the multi-hop ad hoc paradigm. In this new networking paradigm, the users' devices are the network, and they must cooperatively provide the functionalities that are usually provided by the network infrastructure. Nearby nodes can communicate directly by exploiting a single-hop wireless technology (e.g., Bluetooth, 802.11, etc.), while devices that are not directly connected communicate by forwarding their traffic via a sequence of intermediate devices. As, generally, the users devices are mobile, these networks are often referred to as Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs). Being completely self organizing, MANETs are attractive for specialized scenarios like disaster recovery, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and home networking. Unfortunately, nowadays they have a very limited penetration as a network technology for mass-market deployment.To turn mobile ad hoc networks in a commodity, we should move to a more pragmatic scenario in which multi-hop ad hoc networks are used as a flexible and low cost extension of Internet.

Uses and Benefits of QoS

Network administrators can use QoS to guarantee throughput for mission-critical applications so that their transactions can be processed in an acceptable amount of time. Network administrators can also use QoS to manage User Data Protocol (UDP) traffic. Unlike Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), UDP is an inherently unreliable protocol that does not receive feedback from the network and, therefore, cannot detect network congestion. Network administrators can use QoS to manage the priority of applications that rely on UDP, such as multimedia applications, so that they have the required bandwidth even in times of network congestion, but do not overwhelm the network. QoS provides the following benefits:

Gives administrators control over network resources and allows them to manage the network from a business, rather than a technical, perspective. Ensures that time-sensitive and mission-critical applications have the resources they require, while allowing other applications access to the network. Improves user experience. Reduces costs by using existing resources efficiently, thereby delaying or reducing the need for expansion or upgrades.

Mobile ad hoc network

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A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a self-configuring infrastructureless network of mobile devices connected by wireless links. ad hoc is Latin and means "for this purpose".[1][2] Each device in a MANET is free to move independently in any direction, and will therefore change its links to other devices frequently. Each must forward traffic unrelated to its own use, and therefore be a router. The primary challenge in building a MANET is equipping each device to continuously maintain the information required to properly route traffic. Such networks may operate by themselves or may be connected to the larger Internet. MANETs are a kind of wireless ad hoc networks that usually has a routable networking environment on top of a Link Layer ad hoc network. The growth of laptops and 802.11/Wi-Fi wireless networking have made MANETs a popular research topic since the mid 1990s. Many academic papers evaluate protocols and their abilities, assuming varying degrees of mobility within a bounded space, usually with all nodes within a few hops of each other. Different protocols are then evaluated based on measure such as the packet drop rate, the overhead introduced by the routing protocol, end-to-end packet delays, network throughput etc.

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1 Types of MANET 2 Simulation of MANETs 3 Data Monitoring and Mining Using MANETS 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links

[edit] Types of MANET

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are used for communication among vehicles and between vehicles and roadside equipment. For example, a university bus system, if the buses are connected. The buses travel to different parts of a city to pick up or drop off students, and make an ad-hoc network.

Intelligent vehicular ad-hoc networks (InVANETs) are a kind of artificial intelligence that helps vehicles to behave in an intelligent manner during vehicle-to-vehicle collisions, accidents, drunken driving etc. Internet Based Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (iMANET) are ad-hoc networks that link mobile nodes and fixed Internet-gateway nodes. In such type of networks normal adhoc routing algorithms don't apply directly.

[edit] Simulation of MANETs

In general, there are two ways to develop simulations of MANETs. Either use a custom platform to develop the simulation using Network Simulators like OMNeT++, OPNET, NetSim or NS2. And the second option is to develop one's own simulation.

[edit] Data Monitoring and Mining Using MANETS

MANETS can be used for facilitating the collection of sensor data for data mining for a variety of applications such as air pollution monitoring and different types of architectures can be used for such applications.[3] It should be noted that a key characteristic of such applications is that nearby sensor nodes monitoring an environmental feature typically register similar values. This kind of data redundancy due to the spatial correlation between sensor observations inspires the techniques for in-network data aggregation and mining. By measuring the spatial correlation between data sampled by different sensors, a wide class of specialized algorithms can be developed to develop more efficient spatial data mining algorithms as well as more efficient routing strategies[4]. Also researchers have developed performance models[5][6] for MANET by applying Queueing Theory.