Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks: Protocols and Systems

By C-K Toh

The authoritative guide to the state of the art in ad hoc wireless networking. Reflects the field's latest breakthroughs Covers media access, routing, service discovery, multicasting, power... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130078174
• ISBN13: 9780130078179
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 0.7" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Good book for consultants

Luckily I bought this book. It teaches me from basic to morecomplex topics, allowing me to understand and master ad hoc networking. Found it rather a timely book for consultants in the field of wireless office computing, networking, and automation. This book is very helpful, with lots of diagrams and clear explanations. This is the book I need and I highly recommend it to others. My engineers are reading them! - from VP in an IT consulting firm.

Great companion for the Perkins Book

Presentation is clear, logical, lucid, and understandable. My compliments to the author.I think this book is important not only to the reader with a direct interest, but also as a tool for communicating aspects of the subject to management.

Re: Nice book to have!

I am a graduate PhD student and found this bookextremely useful. I had spent many years in industries. It is comprehensive and provides good information on the topics. I thinkthis book was written for educational purposes.Although I knew that there are other researchersout there, not many care to write a book! Also,it is nice to have an author who is one of thefew pioneers to author this book. I do not viewa book as a "bible" and hence I do not expect books to be free from errors. I spotted sometypos but overall this book is valuable for me.The review written by the reader from midwestseemed inappropriate to me. It sounded to me that hedoes not have sufficient networking backgroundto understand the topics. For example, packetsize will impact total packet propagation time. BT has 7 devices plus 1 controller (as stated inthe book). Section 8 is about experimental results from a field trial, not simulation!Again, overall I am happy with this book. No oneelse has written a better book in this area yet. :-)

My comments (from New York City)

This book by TOH is great. The book is well writtenand I found lots of technical topics discussed ingreat depth and with great insights. The part I likewas how he compared different routing protocols, and carefully explaining the advantages and disadvantages.He is also sharp in telling the history of these protocolsand which features/algorithms were first proposed by who.This is great for subsequent followers in the field of adhoc networking. Illusions can therefore be eliminated.Pioneers in this field are clearly identified, forwhich the author himself is one of them. TOH is by far the only inventor/author who implemented this own protocolin great depth, getting it to work, and also with realimplementation results. Other protocol proposers seem tojust make a lot of noise in conferences but their protocolsare rather lacking. I strongly recommend this book sinceit is comprehensive and was written by a technical expertand pioneer in this field. Other competitors did not standa chance since they did not demonstrate their ability tounderstand and address the various technical topics (such as MAC, service discovery, TCP, multicast, powermanagement, etc.,) in the field of ad hoc mobile wireless networks. None of the other MANET protocol peoplewrote any great book but TOH did. I like this book verymuch.

A Great Book On Ad-Hoc Networking-- at last!!

This book provides excellent coverage on Ad-Hoc networking. Other books only talk about Ad-Hoc routing, but this one goes beyond and includes all the relevant topics. This is the FIRST book I have read that answers many of my questions on Ad-Hoc networking.All the pieces of the puzzle seem to fall in place at last!!An Excellent book!