International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications: Volume 5 Issue 4

Effective location‐guided overlay multicast in mobile ad hoc networks

Kai Chen, Klara Nahrstedt

Group communication has become increasing important in mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). Current multicast routing protocols in MANET have been shown to incur large overheads due to…

Autonomous broadcast pruning in wireless ad hoc networks using coverage estimation

Kichan Bae, Hyunsoo Yoon

The purpose of this paper is to find a practical method to minimize unnecessary rebroadcasts for ad hoc networks in a remote area.

WShare: an instant secure collaboration workspace over ad hoc wireless LAN

Ashish Raniwala, Gefan Zhang, Ashwini Sridhar, Jian P. Zheng, Tzi‐cker Chiueh

This paper aims to describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a novel file and application sharing system that enables a group of mobile stations that do not have any…

Design and evaluation of a security architecture for ad hoc networks

Daniel Kraft, Marc Bechler, Hans‐Joachim Hof, Frank Pählke, Lars Wolf

Secure communication is very important for computer networks. Thereby, authentication is one of the most eminent preconditions. In ad hoc networks, common authentication schemes…

Evaluating failure detection in mobile ad‐hoc networks

Roy Friedman, Galya Tcharny

Mobile ad‐hoc networks (MANET) are networks that are formed in an ad‐hoc manner by collections of devices that are equipped with wireless communication capabilities, such as the…

Performance characteristics of location‐based group membership and data consistency algorithms in mobile ad hoc networks

Jeffery W. Wilson, I.R. Chen

Many applications of mobile ad hoc networks require real‐time data consistency among moving nodes within a geographical area of interest to function correctly, such as those that…

The effects of the number of neighbors in multihop wireless networks

Xiaowei Zhang, N.F. Maxemchuk

In multihop wireless networks, the number of neighbors has an important role in the network performance since links are dynamically formed between a node and its neighbors. This…

Guest editorial

Deborah A. Agarwal, Duc A. Tran, Mark D. Yarvis