Issues and Imperatives of Adhoc Networks

Abstract

MANET is a self organized, self configurable network having no infrastructure, and in which the mobile nodes move arbitrarily. The mobile nodes can receive and relay packets as a router. Routing is a critical issue and an efficient routing protocol makes the MANET reliable. The provision of quality of service (QoS) guarantees is much more challenging mainly due to node mobility and resource constraints. Security is an essential requirement in mobile ad hoc network (MANETs). Compared to wired networks, MANETs are more vulnerable to security attacks due to the lack of a trusted centralized authority and limited resources. In practice, most TCP deployments have been carefully designed in the context of wired networks. Ignoring the properties of wireless Ad Hoc Networks can lead to TCP implementations with poor performance. Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc networks offer challenges to TCP's congestion control mechanism related to its inability of distinguishing between losses induced by congestion and others types of losses. This article extensively and exclusively studies the issues involved in Adhoc network which can be exploded as further research purpose.

Marine Internet for Internetworking in Oceans: A Tutorial

“…How to ensure end-to-end transmission reliability in terms of connectivity, network resource allocation as well as QoS is very challenging. Although similar issues exist and have been addressed for conventional mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and opportunistic networks [75], they are not comparable to marine Internet in terms of network scale and heterogeneity of network nodes with different communication and power capacities as well as networking capabilities. Different from terrestrial environments in which there are many cost-effective networks other than MANETs, in oceans, so far there is no alternative to marine Internet for provisioning cost-effective networking services, and these issues have to be studied.…”