Abstract
Wireless networking has been an active research focus since the early days of the packet radio
network introduced by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) 1. Recent
developments in wireless devices have made laptop computers, personal digital assistants (PDA),
pagers, and cellular telephones portable. Now, users can carry these devices to any place at any
time. Hence, there is a need for a network that can be deployed at any place at any time without
any infrastructure support. In some cases, an infrastructure-based network is hard to build.
Networks used by the soldiers on the battlefield are worthwhile to mention here. In some cases,
infrastructures may not exist due to natural calamities such as cyclones, tsunami, and tornados.
Hence, there is always a need for setting up a temporary network among a group of users without
any pre-existing infrastructure and centralized administration. Mobile Ad hoc Networks
(MANETs) are considered suitable solutions for these kinds of temporary networks. MANETs
consist of a group of mobile nodes, which have limited battery and limited processing power.
MANETs are self-organizing and self-configuring networks and they can be deployed without any
infrastructure support. Numerous groundbreaking applications have been proposed based on
MANETs. These applications include disaster management, search and recovery, remote
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healthcare, tele-geoprocessing, education, traffic management, process control, and security 2.
These applications impose diversified design and performance constraints on the MANETs.
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