MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS

In this advanced textbook, Aggelou (Greek Institute of Technology) addresses the technical challenges posed by ensuring effective routing, energy-efficient protocols, and quality of service support in highly dynamic wireless environments. He describes the IEEE 802.11, ETSI HiperLAN, and Bluetooth standards for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), and compares some on-demand to table-driven protocols for routing in MANETs. The final chapter illustrates the standardization procedures of third generation UMTS and portrays it evolution from the second generation schemes to true mobile multimedia wireless systems. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

George Aggelou (Athens, Greece) is the Director of Aggelou Telecommunications, consultants who build next-generation networks for enterprises and industry. Aggelou has been actively involved in standardization efforts for wireless mobile networking for nearly 10 years, first as a researcher at IBM and later as Team Leader at Cisco (London). He has authored a number of IETF drafts.