Multihop Wireless Networks / Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (ePub)

This book provides an introduction to opportunistic routing an
emerging technology designed to improve the packet forwarding
reliability, network capacity and energy efficiency of multihop
wireless networks

This book presents a comprehensive background to the
technological challenges lying behind opportunistic routing. The
authors cover many fundamental research issues for this new
concept, including the basic principles, performance limit and
performance improvement of opportunistic routing compared to
traditional routing, energy efficiency and distributed
opportunistic routing protocol design, geographic opportunistic
routing, opportunistic broadcasting, and security issues associated
with opportunistic routing, etc. Furthermore, the authors discuss
technologies such as multi-rate, multi-channel, multi-radio
wireless communications, energy detection, channel measurement,
etc. The book brings together all the new results on this topic in
a systematic, coherent and unified presentation and provides a much
needed comprehensive introduction to this topic.

Key Features:

* Addresses opportunistic routing, an emerging technology
designed to improve the packet forwarding reliability, network
capacity and energy efficiency of multihop wireless networks

* Discusses the technological challenges lying behind this new
technology, and covers a wide range of practical implementation
issues

* Explores many fundamental research issues for this new concept,
including the basic principles of opportunistic routing,
performance limits and performance improvement, and compares them
to traditional routing (e.g. energy efficiency and distributed
opportunistic routing protocol design, broadcasting, and security
issues)

* Covers technologies such as multi-rate, multi-channel,
multi-radio wireless communications, energy detection, channel
measurement, etc.

This book provides an invaluable reference for researchers
working in the field of wireless networks and wireless
communications, and Wireless professionals. Graduate students will
also find this book of interest.