ET7005 ADHOC NETWORKS

ET7005      ADHOC NETWORKS  

UNIT I  WIRELESS LAN, PAN, WAN AND MAN

Characteristics of wireless channel, Fundamentals of WLANs, IEEE 802.11 standard, HIPERLAN Standard, First-, Second-, and third- generation cellular systems, WLL, Wireless ATM, IEEE 802.16 standard, HIPERACCESS, AdHoc Wireless Internet.

UNIT II  MAC, ROUTING AND MULTICAST ROUTING PROTOCOLS 

MAC Protocols: Design issues, goals and classification, Contention –based protocols with reservation and scheduling mechanisms, Protocols using directional antennas. Routing protocols: Design issues and classification, Table-driven, On-demand and Hybrid routing protocols, Routing protocols with efficient flooding mechanisms, Hierarchical and power-aware routing protocols. Multicast Routing Protocols: Design issues and operation, Architecture reference model, classification, Tree-based and Mesh-based protocols, Energy-efficient multicasting.    

UNIT III TRANSPORT LAYER AND SECURITY PROTOCOLS  

Transport layer Protocol: Design issues, goals and classification, TCP over AdHoc wireless Networks, Security, Security requirements, Issues and challenges in security provisioning, Network security attacks, Security routing. Quality of Service: Issues and challenges in providing QoS, Classification of QoS solutions, MAC layer solutions, Network layer solutions, QoS frameworks.

UNIT IV ENERGY MANAGEMENT

Need, classification of battery management schemes, Transmission power management schemes, System power management schemes. Wireless Sensor Networks: Architecture, Data dissemination, Date gathering, MAC protocols, location discovery, Quality of a sensor network.

UNIT V PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS

ABR beaconing, Performance parameters, Route-discovery time, End-to-end delay performance, Communication throughput performance, Packet loss performance, Route reconfiguration/repair time, TCP/IP based applications.

REFERENCES 

1. C. Siva Ram Murthy and B.S. Manoj, AdHoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and protocols, Prentice Hall PTR, 2004 

2. C.-K.Toh, AdHoc Mobile Wireless Networks: Protocols and Systems, Prentice Hall PTR, 2001 

3. Mohammad Ilyas, The Handbook of AdHoc Wireless Networks, CRC press, 2002 

4. Charles E. Perkins, AdHoc Networking, Addison – Wesley, 2000 

5. Stefano Basagni, Marco Conti, Silvia Giordano and Ivan Stojmenovic, Mobile AdHoc Networking, Wiley – IEEE press, 2004.