Topics in Ad Hoc and sensor networks
Edoardo Biagioni, Silvia Giordano · IEEE Communications Magazine · 2011
The mobile ad hoc networking field has produced several important theoretical results, but in terms of real world implementation and industrial deployment, such networks are suffering scarce exploitation and low interest from the industry and users. This, as discussed in the articles of the April 2007 issue of this Series, was mainly due to a lack of realism in the research approach/objectives that produced tons of scientific papers but only a very limited number of real deployments, with limited involvement of real users and no killer application.