Overview of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and their Modeling
Nadia Nawaz Qadri, Martin Fleury · IGI Global eBooks · 2012
Infrastructureless or ad hoc wireless networks have long been a target of research, because of their flexibility, which is matched by the difficulty of managing them. As this research approaches maturity, it behoves researchers to be more responsible in modeling such networks. In particular, as this chapter discusses, the range of ad hoc networks has been extended to vehicular networks, for which it is no longer possible to loosely define their topology. The chapter then discusses how to improve the modeling of such networks in terms of more representative wireless channel models and more realistic mobility models for vehicular networks. The chapter also contains a review of a topic that has been the subject of intensive research: selection of suitable multi-hop routing. The chapter serves as a prelude to the study of applications on such networks, including multimedia streaming.