Special Issue on “Mobile Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks”

Special issue: Algorithms for wireless and ad-hoc networks

Very few of us can imagine our lives without cellular phones and, more generally, without pervasive connections. But all of us (including those few who remain cool) are attracted by all the challenging algorithmic problems involved in obtaining connections anywhere and at any time. New levels of complexity, not present in the algorithmic design for wired networking, emerge. Indeed, the algorith...

Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Wireless mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), due to their dynamic nature and due to the unreliability of the wireless medium, pose unique challenges that are significantly more complex than those that arise in traditional wired or even cellular wireless networks. MANETs must self organize into a multihop peer-to-peer network without centralized control and without the help of base stations. Their ...

Special Section on Cross-Layer Design for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks

R ECENT technological development of wireless networks such as mobile ad hoc and wireless sensor networks has led to new challenges for wireless multimedia service support. Many research issues such as capacity analysis/enhancement, quality-of-service (QoS) support, wireless routing, and mobility management should be considered. In addition, cross-layer design approaches have shown great potent...

A special issue of Ad Hoc Networks on "Theory, algorithms and applications of wireless networked robotics"

Communications, control, mobility, and cooperation are the main keywords of future Wireless Networked Robotics. This new research field brings together the physical control of mobile sensors and actuators of robotic systems along with their communication and motion capabilities. The aim is to foster cooperation and information sharing among the devices and the robots, and to permit that mission...

Editor's note: Special Issue on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks