• A wireless ad hoc network (WANET) or mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a decentralized type of wireless network. The network is ad hoc because it does...
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    wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communications network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology. It can also be a form of wireless ad hoc...
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  • Smartphone ad hoc networks (SPANs; also smart phone ad hoc networks) are wireless ad hoc networks that use smartphones. Once embedded with ad hoc networking technology...
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  • A Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a proposed type of mobile ad hoc network (MANET) involving road vehicles. VANETs were first proposed in 2001 as "car-to-car...
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  • ad hoc network refers to technologies that allow network communications on an ad hoc basis. Associated technologies include: Wireless ad hoc network Mobile...
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    mobile device. A wireless ad hoc network, also known as a wireless mesh network or mobile ad hoc network (MANET), is a wireless network made up of radio...
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  • These are similar to wireless ad hoc networks in the sense that they rely on wireless connectivity and spontaneous formation of networks so that sensor data...
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  • Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing is a routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and other wireless ad hoc networks. It was jointly...
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    evolved wireless ad hoc network (EVAN) is a decentralized type of wireless network that compensates for the shortcomings of the existing wireless ad hoc network...
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  • clock-sampling mutual network synchronization algorithm for wireless ad hoc networks", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 1, IEEE Press:...
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    confuse wireless access points with wireless ad hoc networks. An ad hoc network uses a connection between two or more devices without using a wireless access...
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    Wireless community networks or wireless community projects or simply community networks, are non-centralized, self-managed and collaborative networks...
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    Wi-Fi (redirect from Wireless Fidelity)
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2002 and ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 2001. This wireless ad hoc network mode has proven popular...
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  • computing devices in a mobile ad hoc network. In ad hoc networks, nodes are not familiar with the topology of their networks. Instead, they have to discover...
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    A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology. It can also be a form of wireless ad hoc network. Category...
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    Ultra-wideband and FM-UWB networks Wireless ad hoc network (WANET) Z-Wave Gratton, Dean A. (2013). The Handbook of Personal Area Networking Technologies and Protocols...
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  • Intelligent vehicular ad hoc networks (InVANETs) use WiFi IEEE 802.11p (WAVE standard) and effective communication between vehicles with dynamic mobility...
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  • often useful to find faults in a network or to discover if routing is indeed correct. In a wireless ad hoc network, commonly, every participating node...
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  • Multi-user MIMO (redirect from Network MIMO)
    scheduling. The highly interconnected wireless ad hoc network increases the flexibility of wireless networking at the cost of increased multi-user interference...
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    contrast to the stations in an infrastructure-mode network, the stations in a wireless ad hoc network communicate directly with one another, i.e. without...
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  • interconnect to create a wireless LAN mesh network, which may be used for relatively fixed (not mobile) topologies and wireless ad hoc networks. The IEEE 802.11s...
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  • Zigbee (redirect from Drop-in Networking)
    which need wireless connection. Hence, Zigbee is a low-power, low-data-rate, and close proximity (i.e., personal area) wireless ad hoc network. The technology...
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    Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (category Ad hoc routing protocols)
    routing protocol optimized for mobile ad hoc networks, which can also be used on other wireless ad hoc networks. OLSR is a proactive link-state routing...
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    single-hop communication, rather than multi-hop communication like wireless ad hoc networks. The Wi-Fi Direct standard was specified in 2009. It is useful...
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  • Ad hoc Wireless Distribution Service (AWDS) is a layer 2 routing protocol to connect mobile ad hoc networks, sometimes called wireless mesh networks. It...
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  • Associativity-based routing (category Ad hoc routing protocols)
    routing protocol invented for wireless ad hoc networks, also known as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and wireless mesh networks. ABR was invented in 1993...
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    B.A.T.M.A.N. (category Ad hoc routing protocols)
    The Better Approach to Mobile Ad-hoc Networking (B.A.T.M.A.N.) is a routing protocol for multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks which is under development by...
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    A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless computer network that links two or more devices using wireless communication to form a local area network (LAN) within...
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  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (category PlayStation Network games)
    PSP version of the game includes a multiplayer mode through a wireless ad hoc network, which allows up to six players to engage in several different...
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  • Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (category PlayStation Network games)
    version of the game also includes a multiplayer mode through a wireless ad hoc network, which allows up to six players to engage in several different...
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