Bluetooth standard allows the creation of piconets, with one node serving as its master and up to seven nodes serving as slaves. A Bluetooth ad hoc network can also be formed by in...
— Cooperative and reliable packet forwarding presents a formidable challenge in mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), due to special network characteristics; e.g., mobility, dynamic to...
Ad hoc networks, being able to organize themselves without user intervention, can easily provide their users with mobility, multimedia support and group communication. However, the...
Protecting the network layer from malicious attacks is an important yet challenging security issue in mobile ad hoc networks. In this paper we describe SCAN, a unified networklayer...
Due to the mobility of nodes in Ad hoc networks, network topology is dynamic and unpredictable, which leads to frequent network partitioning. This partitioning disconnects many no...