A mobile ad hoc network consists of certain nodes that communicate only
through wireless medium and can move arbitrarily. The key feature of a mobile ad
hoc network is the mobility of the nodes. Because of the mobility, communication
links form and disappear as nodes come into and go out of each other's communica-
tion range. Mobile ad hoc networks are particularly useful in situations like disaster
recovery and search, military operations, etc. Research on mobile ad hoc networks
has drawn a huge amount of attention recently. The main challenges for mobile ad
hoc networks are the sparse resources and frequent mobility. Most of the research
work has been focused on the MAC and routing layer. In this work, we focus on
distributed services for mobile ad hoc networks. These services will provide some
fundamental functions in developing various applications for mobile ad hoc networks.
In particular, we focus on the clock synchronization, connected dominating set, and
k-mutual exclusion problems in mobile ad hoc networks.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/2541 |
| Date | 01 November 2005 |
| Creators | Cao, Guangtong |
| Contributors | Welch, Jennifer L. |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | 672110 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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