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Chapter 9<br />

Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc <strong>Network</strong>s<br />

Khaldoun Al Agha <strong>and</strong> Steven Martin<br />

Abstract Ad hoc networks were created to provide communication between peers<br />

without any network infrastructure. They could help in a hostile environment for<br />

military <strong>and</strong> rescue entities, <strong>and</strong> also for commercial applications such as gaming<br />

or facilities for networking. To improve the provided services on those networks,<br />

many quality of service (QoS) frameworks have been proposed to improve the performance<br />

of ad hoc networks, <strong>and</strong> to offer many possibilities for important applications<br />

to use priorities, admission control, or quasi guarantees. The dynamicity of<br />

ad hoc networks introduces complexity for such QoS schemes. In this chapter, we<br />

offer a summary of all existing ad hoc protocols at different levels of the network<br />

architecture <strong>and</strong> the proposed QoS frameworks.<br />

9.1 Ad Hoc <strong>Network</strong>s<br />

In a wireless network, a node can successfully communicate with nodes within its<br />

transmission range. Nodes outside this range, but close enough to detect the signal,<br />

are in the carrier sensing range. In a wireless ad hoc network, no infrastructure or<br />

centralized administration is needed to establish or manage data exchanges. Such a<br />

network is formed dynamically <strong>and</strong> nodes organize themselves. The main restriction<br />

of an ad hoc network is its area, since any node has to be within the transmission<br />

range of any other node it communicates with. To extend the area of the network,<br />

that is to say to enable communication between two distant nodes, intermediate<br />

nodes must relay messages. This is the characterization of a wireless multi-hop ad<br />

hoc network. Moreover, nodes are free to move independently <strong>and</strong> in any direction.<br />

Khaldoun Al Agha<br />

LRI, Bâtiment 490, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France, e-mail: alagha@lri.fr<br />

Steven Martin<br />

LRI, Bâtiment 490, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France, e-mail: smartin@lri.fr<br />

J. Kennington et al. (eds.), <strong>Wireless</strong> <strong>Network</strong> <strong>Design</strong>: <strong>Optimization</strong> <strong>Models</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Solution</strong><br />

Procedures, International Series in Operations Research <strong>and</strong> Management Science 158,<br />

DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6111-2_9, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011<br />

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