Ad hoc wireless networks, which offer huge economic and military potential, connect mobile devices without the need for elaborate infrastructure, setup, or administration. The first book to cover every significant problem related to the design and functionality of ad hoc wireless networks is Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols. Modern methods and answers are presented by eminent researchers C. Siva Ram Murthy and B. S. Manoj, who also provide more than 200 concise examples and end-of-chapter puzzles to illustrate their points. The topics covered by Murthy and Manoj include service discovery, self-organization, security, energy management, media access, transport, and multicasting. They provide fresh approaches intended to streamline deployment and boost scalability. They present other subjects along the road that aren't covered in any other book, like Wi-Fi ad hoc networks, hybrid wireless architectures, and ultra wideband ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, and ad hoc network pricing techniques. This book is part of the Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies Series, Theodore Rappaport, Series Editor. Rappaport recently praised it as ?the finest I have seen on the topic.?