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Abstract | ||
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We discuss ten years of research about multi-hop ad hoc networking. We try to summarize the main achievements and to point out the limits behind Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET) research. This research has been carried out under the assumption that these networks are mainly used for large-scale general consumer applications, and nodes are ubiquitous, thus reasonably dense and active. Both assumptions are considerably far from reality and would certainly not be true in an initial phase of deployment. Lack of realism in MANET objectives coupled with a lack of realism during MANET design are the main causes that are running MANET towards a high risk of failing. Then we show that, while pure general-purpose MANETs do not yet happen in the real world, the multi-hop ad hoc networking paradigm has been successfully applied in several classes of networks that are penetrating the mass market. We take as examples mesh and opportunistic networks together with vehicular and sensor networks, where the multi-hop ad hoc paradigm is applied in a pragmatic way to extend the Internet, and/or to support well-defined application requirements. We oppose these successful areas of ad hoc networking to the lack of impacts of pure general-purpose MANETs, evidencing how a more pragmatic approach is winner. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1145/1298126.1298127 | Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks from Theory to Reality |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
dynamically self-organise,mobile ad,networks prototype,multi-hop ad hoc networks,pre-existing communication infrastructure,networking paradigm,mobile multi-hop ad hoc,main cause,relevant result,experimental approach,manet design,high risk,mobile node,examples mesh,disaster recovery environment,pragmatic approach,network topology,main achievement,unique aspect,pure general-purpose manets,manet objective,energy efficiency,ad hoc network,mobile ad hoc network,sensor network | Mobile ad hoc network,Delay-tolerant networking,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Dynamic circuit network,Ad hoc wireless distribution service,Adaptive quality of service multi-hop routing,Optimized Link State Routing Protocol,Wireless ad hoc network,Vehicular ad hoc network | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
1600216056 | 5 | 0.64 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marco Conti | 1 | 1490 | 114.70 |
| Jon Crowcroft | 2 | 12085 | 1252.50 |
| A Passarella | 3 | 5 | 0.64 |