ABSTRACT
In the past few years, there has been a rapid expansion in the eld of mobile computing due to the proliferation of inexpensive, widely available wireless devices leading to the trend toward mobile ad hoc networking. A mobile ad hoc network is an autonomous collection (or group) of mobile devices (laptops, smart phones, sensors, etc.) that communicate with each other over wireless links and cooperate in a distributed manner in order to provide the necessary network functionality in the absence of a xed infrastructure. Application scenarios include, but are not limited to, emergency and rescue operations, conference or campus settings, car networks, personal networking, etc.
