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EUROCON 2005, pp 640–643 Gharavi, H & Ban, K (2004) Dynamic adjustment packet control for video communications over ad- hoc networks, Conf Rec IEEE ICC 2004 22 Mobile Ad- Hoc Networks: Protocol Design Guilford, J P (1954) Psychometric methods, McGraw-Hill Itaya, S., Hasegawa, J., Hasegawa, A & Davis, P (2005) Achieving stable operation of ad hoc wireless networks with neighbor pre-selection and synchronous... the scalability issues, routing protocols, security administrations, and energy management strategies Also, a special attention is paid on the fundamental problems that will occur when trying to provide the QoS The structure of this chapter is 24 Mobile Ad- Hoc Networks: Protocol Design organized as follows First, we discuss and analyze the dynamic nature of the mobile ad- hoc networks Then, we identify... is employed; it is application-level QoS control 4 Mobile Ad- Hoc Networks: Protocol Design While the above approaches refer to cross-layering between the network and application layers, Setton et al (2005) have explored a new framework for cross-layer design that incorporates adaptation across all layers of the protocol stack: application, transport protocols, resource allocation, and link layer techniques... 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QoS mechanisms in mobile ad hoc networks, Proc IEEE/IFIP WONS 2006 Clausen, T & Jacquet, P (2003) RFC 3626, Optimized link state routing protocol (OLSR) Fan, Z (2004) High throughput reactive routing in multi-rate ad hoc networks, Electronics Letters 40(25) Frias, V C., Delgado, G D., Igartua, M A., Delgado, J A & Diaz, J M (2005) QoS provision for video-streaming applications over ad hoc networks, Proc... the main reasons to use ad- hoc network Fig 1 A Mobile Ad- hoc Network (MANET) In the past researches, mobile ad- hoc networks are seen as a part of the Internet, with IPcentric layered architecture This architecture has two main advantages: it simplifies the interconnection to the Internet, and guarantees the independence from heterogeneous wireless technologies The layered paradigm, which has significantly... schemes In addition, LQHR may not select routes with higher speed links compared to AODV-SS This is because LQHR is not optimized well; as discussed earlier, the protocol may not select appropriate links especially in the sparse networks We need to modify the mechanism more efficiently 18 Mobile Ad- Hoc Networks: Protocol Design 10000 Number of routing packets 9000 8000 7000 6000 Average load = 100 kb/s... networks like those with many mobile nodes Fig 3 Network configuration We formulate a detailed simulation model which is based on the distributed coordination function (DCF) of the IEEE 802.11b The transmission speed is automatically changed from 2 Mb/s to 11 Mb/s by means of the rate adaptation mechanism In this chapter, we employ 10 Mobile Ad- Hoc Networks: Protocol Design ARF (Automatic Rate Fallback)... Service (QoS) Provisioning in Mobile Ad- Hoc Networks (MANETs) Masoumeh Karimi Technological University of American (TUA) USA 1 Introduction Next generation of wireless communication systems are engineered to service independent mobile users These autonomous mobile users (nodes) are connected through wireless links to build a live and on-the-fly network called a Mobile Ad- hoc Network (MANET) The nodes . MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS: PROTOCOL DESIGN Edited by Xin Wang Mobile Ad- Hoc Networks: Protocol Design Edited by Xin Wang Published by InTech Janeza. Barria ADHOCTCP: Improving TCP Performance in Ad Hoc Networks 121 Seyed Mohsen Mirhosseini and Fatemeh Torgheh Cross Layer Design in Ad Hoc Networks 139 Cross–Layer Design in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Wireless Ad- hoc Networks 281 Marco Fotino and Floriano De Rango Routing in Ad Hoc Networks 297 Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 299 Fenglien Lee Fault-Tolerant Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks