Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs) creates a temporary network of mobile nodes. Routing is a major issue in MANETs. Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) has recently proven to be a novel and efficient way for developing scalable routing protocols in MANETs. With the increase in applications of MANETS, the networks have become very complex which leads to channel impairments. Moreover multipath protocols p...

Disconnected mobile ad hoc networks (or D-MANETs) are partially or intermittently connected wireless networks, in which continuous end-to-end connectivity between mobile nodes is not guaranteed. The ability to selfform and self-manage brings great opportunities for D-MANETs, but developing distributed applications capable of running in such networks remains a major challenge. A middleware syste...

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) follow a unique organizational and behavioral logic. MANETs’ characteristics such as their dynamic topology coupled with the characteristics of the wireless communicationmedium make Quality of Service provisioning a difficult challenge. This paper presents a new approach based on a mobile routing backbone for supporting Quality of Service (QoS) in MANETs. In real...

Last decade has witnessed wide growth of Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). Mobile ad-hoc network is self-configurable and adaptive. MANETs use wireless connections to connect various networks. There are number of issues and challenges in a mobile ad hoc network. Due to many number of nodes transmitting packets over the network, the chances of losing the packets over the network increases to a gr...

As the demands for Internet connectivity of ad hoc networks are consistently increasing, the interconnection of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) to fixed IP networks is emerging as an issue with considerable attention in the literature [2,3,4]. Here, we focus on connecting MANETs to the Internet by integrating Mobile IPv6. Many previous studies are suffered from some limitations that the dynamic...

Collaboration between mobile nodes is significant in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The great challenges of MANETs are their vulnerabilities to various security attacks. Because of the lack of centralized administration, secure routing is challenging in MANETs. Effective secure routing is quite essential to protect nodes from anonymous behaviours. Game theory is currently employed as a tool t...

Service composition, which enables users to construct complex services from atomic services, is an essential feature for the usability of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Service composition in MANETs should be fault-tolerant and distributed. Efforts in this area are rare and sounds not meet the requirements very well. In this paper, we present a distributed Fault-Tolerant Service Composition P...

--------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT-------------------------------------------A MANET is an autonomous collection of mobile users (nodes) that communicate over relatively bandwidth-constrained wireless links. The infrastructure less and the dynamic nature of these networks demands new set of networking strategies to be implemented in order to provide efficient end-to-end ...

This paper presents a thorough survey of recent work addressing energy efficient multicast routing protocols and secure multicast routing protocols in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). There are so many issues and solutions which witness the need of energy management and security in ad hoc wireless networks. The objective of a multicast routing protocol for MANETs is to support the propagation o...

Since MANETs are mainly composed of lightight devices with limited capabilities, efficiently manage security is crucial to reduce the performance degradation and resources consumption. In particular, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) based on cooperative communication (CC) present significant challenges to security issues, as well as issues of network performance and management. Thus the authenti...