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Wireless Ad Hoc Network

Wireless ad hoc networks are decentralized wireless networks that do not rely on existing infrastructure. Nodes in an ad hoc network forward data for other nodes to enable network connectivity. Ad hoc networks are suitable for emergency situations or military conflicts due to their minimal configuration and quick deployment. Theoretical limits to capacity have been identified for these networks. Medium access control is needed to manage node competition for the shared wireless medium and avoid collisions.

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Wireless Ad Hoc Network

Wireless ad hoc networks are decentralized wireless networks that do not rely on existing infrastructure. Nodes in an ad hoc network forward data for other nodes to enable network connectivity. Ad hoc networks are suitable for emergency situations or military conflicts due to their minimal configuration and quick deployment. Theoretical limits to capacity have been identified for these networks. Medium access control is needed to manage node competition for the shared wireless medium and avoid collisions.

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theoretical[2] and practical[3] limits to the

Wireless ad hoc overall capacity of such networks have been


identified.
network
Minimal configuration and quick
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia deployment make ad hoc networks suitable
for emergency situations like natural
Jump to: navigation, search disasters or military conflicts. The presence
of a dynamic and adaptive routing protocol
A wireless ad hoc network is a will enable ad hoc networks to be formed
decentralized wireless network.[1] The quickly.
network is ad hoc because it does not rely on
a preexisting infrastructure, such as routers Wireless ad hoc networks can be further
in wired networks or access points in classified by their application:
managed (infrastructure) wireless networks.
Instead, each node participates in routing by  mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)
forwarding data for other nodes, and so the  wireless mesh networks
determination of which nodes forward data  wireless sensor networks.
is made dynamically based on the network
connectivity.
[edit] Medium Access
The earliest wireless ad hoc networks were Control
the "packet radio" networks (PRNETs) from
the 1970s, sponsored by DARPA after the In most wireless ad hoc networks the nodes
ALOHAnet project. compete to access the shared wireless
medium, often resulting in collisions. Using
Contents cooperative wireless communications
improves immunity to interference by
[hide] having the destination node combine self-
interference and other-node interference to
 1 Application improve decoding of the desired signal.
 2 Medium Access Control
 3 See also [edit] See also
 4 References
 5 External links Netsukuku

[edit] References
[edit] Application
1. ^ C K Toh, Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless
The decentralized nature of wireless ad hoc Networks, Prentice Hall Publishers ,
networks makes them suitable for a variety 2002.
of applications where central nodes can't be 2. ^ P. Gupta and P.R. Kumar.
relied on, and may improve the scalability of Capacity of wireless networks. IEEE
wireless ad hoc networks compared to Transactions on Information Theory,
wireless managed networks, though
Volume 46, Issue 2, March 2000,
doi:10.1109/18.825799
3. ^ Jinyang Li, Charles Blake,
Douglas S. J. De Couto, Hu Imm
Lee, and Robert Morris, Capacity of
Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, in the
proceedings of the 7th ACM
International Conference on Mobile
Computing and Networking, Rome,
Italy, July 2001

[edit] External links


 Guide to creating an ad hoc network
 The Mesh DebateDailywireless
Article on Structured mesh network
scalabili

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