Smart and Sustainable Approaches for Optimizing Performance of Wireless Networks

5Overview of Resource Management for Wireless Ad Hoc Network

Mehajabeen Fatima¹ and Afreen Khursheed²

¹ SIRT, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

² IIIT, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

5.1 Introduction

The popularity of mobile computing and communication devices has increased significantly, facilitated by the developments in software and processing power of devices. The technological innovation is so fast that it is expected that the majority of the world's population will be online in the next few years. Most wireless devices like laptops, cell phones or smart phones, handheld digital devices, or wearable computers like the tablet, interact with humans and connect to the global Internet. In the future, a considerable number of wireless devices will work with little or no human intervention. Laptops, cell phones, smart phones, and tablets are considered to generate temporary networks or an ad hoc network, entirely for instantaneous communication without any external involvement. An ad hoc network may be understood as the cooperative engagement of collection of mobile nodes without any centralized access or control point in which each node acts as a router. It is supposed to interact with mobile nodes using a dynamic network in which nodes can join and leave arbitrarily. Currently, complications are faced because of the structure of the Internet. Ad hoc networks can assist to address these difficulties. The two devices that are in instant range of each other still have to use routers ...