ICACT'09 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Advanced Communication Technology - Volume 1
A distributed routing architecture for secure communication over highly dynamic radio networks
COMSNETS'09 Proceedings of the First international conference on COMmunication Systems And NETworks
Communications middleware for tactical environments: observations, experiences, and lessons learned
IEEE Communications Magazine
Cognitive network management with reinforcement learning for wireless mesh networks
IPOM'07 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE international conference on IP operations and management
Design of a delay-based routing protocol for multi-rate multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Testing applications in MANET environments through emulation
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Energy Efficient and Scalable Routing Protocol for Extreme Emergency Ad Hoc Communications
Mobile Networks and Applications
Standardisation advancements in the area of routing for mobile ad-hoc networks
The Journal of Supercomputing
| Hi-index | 0.25 |
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are considered by many as fundamental to realizing the global information grid (GIG) and the vision of network-centric warfare. Indeed, a fully realized MANET would be powerful in enabling highly mobile, highly responsive, and quickly deployable tactical forces. However, significant technical challenges remain before this realization is viable. Addressing these deficiencies is a significant task that will require the invention and adoption of new technology. The goal of this article is not to declare these capabilities impossible to achieve. Rather, it is to manage the expectation of the capabilities achievable in the foreseeable future through edification on the technical difficulties standing between current technology and the desired capabilities. This article provides an overview of the military MANET problem space, describing the ideal military MANET solution. Several deficiencies are highlighted that exist between MANET technologies and the desired capability. Identified technical issues include system-level architecture, routing (both interior and exterior), management, security, and medium access control (MAC), with an emphasis on the former two areas