Exploiting Wireless Networks, through creation of Opportunity Network - Wireless-Mobile-Adhoc-Network (W-MAN) Scheme
Hemal Shah, Yogeshwar Prasad Kosta · International Journal of Ad hoc Sensor & Ubiquitous Computing · 2011
Spotting Opportunity today and recognizing the same is the vision of the expert.The wireless communication network regime is one such environment that offers such a platform for many working scientific, academic and engineering experts.Henceforth, "Opportunistic-network" is a recent evolution of the above said phenomena in the wireless community.They function by spontaneous cooperation & coordination giving birth to a special type network called wireless-mobile-adhoc-network (W-MAN).As said, these networks are formed instantaneously in a random manner -breaking the conventional mathematically evolved algorithms', and provided the quintessential of a network(s) that exist in neighbourhood(s) or approachable limits.Is more of situational based, exploited for specialized purpose or advantage, which mimics all the characteristic of a well evolved network.Such networks, lack an endto-end path, contact, cooperation and coordination; which is mainly opportunity based, and break or even disintegrate soon after discovery, thus the challenge lay in integration, construction and probable sustenance or even mid-way reconstruction till purpose.One can cite many realistic scenarios fitting to this situation.For example, wildlife tracking sensor networks, military networks, vehicular ad hoc networks to mention a few.To transmit information under such circumstances/scenarios researchers have proposed various efficient forwarding (single copy), replication routing and controlled based schemes.In this paper, we propose to explore, investigate and analyze most of the schemes [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] and present the findings of the said scheme by consolidating critical parameters and issues and towards the end of this paper, algorithms, possible solutions to deal with such complex and dynamic situations through W-MAN scheme suggested by us.