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Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks, 2nd Edition
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Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks, 2nd Edition

by Subir Kumar Sarkar, T.G. Basavaraju, C. Puttamadappa
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
349 pages
8h 42m
English
CRC Press
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2.1 Introduction
e simplicity in deployment makes mobile ad hoc networks (which
do not require any infrastructure) suitable for a variety of applica-
tions, such as collaborative computing, disaster recovery, and battle
field communication. With the proliferation of communications and
computing devices, such as mobile phones, laptops, or PDAs, per-
sonal area networking (PAN), which is an ad hoc networking-based
technology, has recently gained much interest.
In ad hoc networks, transmitters use radio signals for communi-
cation. Generally, each node can only be a transmitter (TRX) or a
receiver (RX), one at a time. Communication among mobile nodes
is limited within a certain transmission range. And nodes share the
same f
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