On the Design of Self- Organizing Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) (Haas et al., 1999) are an important subject for research as mobile devices (laptops, PDAs, cell phones), wireless networks and applications became widespread during the last decade. For instance, specialized ad hoc networks such as the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) (Pottie & Kaiser, 2000; Akyildiz et al., 2002) and the Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) (Kosch et al., 2006) are very active research areas. A WSN consists of sensor nodes connected among themselves by a wireless medium to perform distributed sensing tasks, and these networks are expected to be used in different applications (Arampatzis et al., 2005) such as environmental and health monitoring, surveillance, and security. A VANET is composed by wireless devices to allow communications among nearby vehicles, or among ABStrAct