
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
Zhengguo Sheng, University of British Columbia, Canada
Chi Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
1.1 OVERVIEW
In the last few years, there has been a lot of interest in wireless ad hoc net-
works as they have remarkable commercial a nd military applications. Such
wireless networks have the benefit of avoiding a wired infrastructure. How-
ever, signal fading is a severe problem for wireless communications, particu-
larly for the multi-hop transmissions in the ad hoc networks. In real applica-
tion, without considering this issue, signals may not be received properly. In
order to deal with this problem, the use of diver ...