Ad Hoc Networking

by Charles E. Perkins

Ad hoc networks are to computing devices what Yahoo Personals are to single people: both help individuals communicate productively with strangers while maintaining security. Under the rules of ad hoc... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201309769
• ISBN13: 9780201309768
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Any business or computer library alike needs this technical guide

"Ad hoc" networks are wireless, mobile networks which exist outside the Internet or other network infrastructures, and this collection of protocols and ideas from leading researchers and users of the technology provide tips on mobile computing and business applications. From compatibility and quality of service to security and costs concerns, any business or computer library alike needs this technical guide.

Expert look at ad hoc networking

Truly the best of research is collected in this book. In depth analysis on all important topics in ad hoc networks.It is really a collection of some of the best works in this field(not a coherent book),... so it should be read as such.Excellent experience.

State of the Art in wireless ad hoc networking

Although the editor did not make a serious effort to transform the different protocols into a coherent set of chapters, the book is still the best out there that explains the main concepts of ad hoc networking protocol design. I will use it in my class, although it requires a lot of background and it will be for graduate research students.It is not a text book. But it is a very valuable book for researchers and networking engineers interested in this field.The authors (not editor) present some of their best and most valuable contribution to this field. Without those protocols it is quite hard to understand the design trade-offs in this new and emerging field of ad hoc networks. You get first hand explanations from Johnson, Perkins, J.J. Garcia, Haas, and others that are top researchers in this field (you have to be in this field to appreciate them). It is much better than C.K.Toh's book (who is focused on his own work and doesn't provide a larger, big picture, view of others protocol designs). I hope the next edition will incorportate some serious editing though I like it as a starting research point as is.

Patience will be rewarded

The opaque style of some of the writing may indeed be off-putting to the less educated reader, but that's not the target audience. The target audience consists of trained professionals who are already working in related areas, who want to see "what's going on" in a hot field.This is neither a primer nor a reference, but rather a survey of current practice. It's a source of ideas and inspiration, not canned answers. If you're looking for a book with the narrative flow of a novel, that will take you from total ignorance to mastery of the field, this is not the book for you. To get the most out of it, you must be willing (and able) to evaluate the ideas presented and determine for yourself how they fit in with your own needs and goals. The protocols presented were not all designed for the same needs - node counts, degrees of mobility and reliability, etc. All of them probably contain some flaw or other; this is in fact logically necessary because sometimes the chapter authors flatly contradict one another. However, a protocol that contains three flaws might nonetheless contain seven other good ideas.This is a challenging book. Professionals and (advanced, probably graduate level) students who rise to the challenge and invest some of their own thought in the reading process will get a lot out of it, as I and others have done. Less advanced readers, or those who hope to learn by passive absorption, might be disappointed.

A must-read

I gave this book four stars because some of the chapters are written in an unnecessarily dry, opaque, academic style. However, that's not what's important. While it's not for everyone, there are many people who I feel *MUST READ* this book. It deals with protocols, particularly routing protocols, developed for use in a very challenging environment, where nodes come and go and move frequently, where connections never last, etc. A lot of what has been learned from studying this environment can be used to improve the less-dynamic Internet itself. A lot of it, in fact, represents a return to the Internet's roots, when the intent was to be more fully decentralized, thus more robust and also more "democratic".There's a particularly important message in this book for peer-to-peer (P2P) developers. Many of the protocols described in this book, many of the problems found and overcome with/by those protocols, are *exactly* the same problems as those P2P developers are now facing and struggling with. Well, guys, you don't have to go it alone. This book proves that there is technology already out there that can help you, and before you go reinventing (inferior) wheels, *READ THIS BOOK*. Put down that hundredth book you're reading about crypto, and learn something about the state of the art in routing.