Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) represent complex distributed systems that comprise wireless mobile nodes that can freely and dynamically self-organize into arbitrary and temporary, ‘‘ad-hoc’’ network topologies, allowing people and devices to seamlessly internetwork in areas with no pre-existing communication infrastructure, e.g., disaster recovery environments. Ad hoc networking concept is no...

Ad hoc networks have been used in wide range of applications. These networks have become versatile as far implementation is concerned. Such networks have been used from static deployment to mobile network formations. Apart from Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), another ad hoc formation with mobile nodes is the aerial ad hoc networks also termed as Flying Ad...

Traditional ad hoc networks have flat architecture, which suffers from poor scalability. Theoretical analysis and experimental results imply that throughput for each node decreases rapidly toward zero while the number of nodes increases in such architecture. Hierarchical architecture in ad hoc networks present a trade off between cellular networks and pure ad hoc networks, in that data may be f...

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are a particular type of Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) in which the vehicles are considered as nodes. Due to rapid topology changing and frequent disconnection makes it difficult to design an efficient routing protocol for routing data among vehicles. In this paper, a new routing protocol based on glowworm swarm optimization algorithm is provided. Using the g...

Security of mobile ad hoc networks is more challenging task due to its complex properties. In mobile ad hoc networks, intrusion detection system is known as the second line of defense because prevention based techniques are not a good solution for ad hoc networks due to its complex characteristics. For the security point of view, many intrusion detection systems have been proposed to mobile ad ...

Much progress has been made toward solving the problem of routing packets inside an ad hoc network, but there are presently no complete proposals for connecting ad hoc networks together to form larger networks, or for integrating them with wired internets. This paper describes a technique that allows a single ad hoc network to span across heterogeneous link layers. Using this technique, we can ...

Wireless communication networks, in particular ad hoc networks have revolutionized the field of Networking with increasing number of commercial and military applications. Establishing communication through portable devices without the dependence on or constraints of any central infrastructural id possible through ad hoc networks. Wireless ad hoc networks models play a predominant role in perfor...