A mobile ad hoc network manet involves mobile devices communicating directly with one another.
Ad hoc networks in mobile computing.
Internet based mobile ad hoc networks imanets is a type of wireless ad hoc network that supports internet protocols such as tcp udp and ip.
Manet stands for mobile adhoc network also called as wireless adhoc network or adhoc wireless network that usually has a routable networking environment on top of a link layer ad hoc network.
They consist of set of mobile nodes connected wirelessly in a self configured self healing network without having a fixed infrastructure.
The term ad hoc is a latin word that literally means for this implying improvised or impromptu.
Ad hoc networks are mostly wireless local area networks lans.
The network uses a network layer routing protocol to link mobile nodes and establish routes distributedly and automatically.
Manet nodes are free to move randomly as the network topology changes frequently.
A mobile ad hoc network manet is a collection of mobile nodes that act as both routers and hosts in an ad hoc wireless network and that dynamically self organize in a wireless network without using any pre established infrastructure.
Nodes typically transmit in broadcast messages that reach only nearby nodes.
A mobile ad hoc network manet is generally defined as a network that has many free or autonomous nodes often composed of mobile devices or other mobile pieces that can arrange themselves in various ways and operate without strict top down network administration.