
8 ◾ Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Current Status and Future Trends
1.6 MANET Applications and Scenarios
With the increase of portable devices as well as progress in wireless communication, ad hoc net-
working is gaining importance because of its increasing number of widespread applications. Ad
hoc networking can be applied anywhere at anytime without infrastructure and its flexible net-
works. Ad hoc networking allows the devices to maintain connections to the network as well as
easily adds and removes devices to and from the network. e set of applications of MANETs is
diverse, ranging from large-scale, mobile, highly dynamic networks to small and ...