ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a short overview of the main medium-access control and routing strategies proposed for wireless ad-hoc networks. It presents several important routing schemes proposed for wireless ad-hoc networks that try to make the relaying of messages from source to destination an efficient procedure even under the situation of mobility which can cause constant topology changes. Wireless networks are characterized by nodes that are connected to each other by wireless links. Network setup in mobile wireless ad-hoc network is a tedious task because of rapid dynamic nature of these networks while communication in wired networks or even stationary wireless networks is much easier to manage. The chapter analyses the classical Aloha and carrier sense multiple access protocols proposed in multihop wireless networks. The Aloha protocol was de facto the first wireless network protocol implemented in practice and used for transmission of data packets in a wireless network for computer interconnection.
