Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks : Wiley-ISTE : 9781848210035 : 1848210035 : 27 Dec 2007 : Two new fields in the area of communications technology have recently appeared: mobile ad hoc networks and sensor networks. The emergence of these very promising systems is mainly due to great technological progress in the field of wireless communication protocols; they will make it possible to offer a broad range of new applications in both civilian and militarian contexts. However, the inherent characteristics of these systems contain new challenges. This book deals with various important fields related to the evolution and growth of these flexible and self-organized networks. The authors tackle critical problems such as the design of unicast/multicast routing protocols, support for quality of service, security mechanisms for routing and data transmission, service location, techniques for clustering/self-organization, mobility of code and fault-tolerance techniques. The discussion adopts an