characteristics features of adhoc networks
ramasubramanian velumayil
PRIYAN G.S
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ramasubramanian velumayil
Characteristics of MANET
• In MANET, each node act as both host and router. That is it is autonomous in behavior.
• Multi-hop radio relaying- When a source node and destination node for a message is out of the radio range, the MANETs are capable of multi-hop routing.
• Distributed nature of operation for security, routing and host configuration. A centralized firewall is absent here.
• The nodes can join or leave the network anytime, making the network topology dynamic in nature.
• Mobile nodes are characterized with less memory, power and light weight features.
• The reliability, efficiency, stability and capacity of wireless links are often inferior when compared with wired links. This shows the fluctuating link bandwidth of wireless links.
• Mobile and spontaneous behavior which demands minimum human intervention to configure the network.
• All nodes have identical features with similar responsibilities and capabilities and hence it forms a completely symmetric environment.
• High user density and large level of user mobility.
• Nodal connectivity is intermittent.