Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks A mobile ad-hoc network (Manet) consists of a collection of mobile nodes forming a dynamic autonomous network through a fully mobile infrastructure. Nodes communicate with each other without the intervention of centralized access points or base stations. In such a network, each node acts as a host and may act as a router. Due to limited transmission range of wireless network interfaces, multiple hops may be needed to exchange data between nodes in the network, which is why the literature often uses the term of multi-hop network in Manet.
The topology of a multi-hop network is the set of communication links between nodes used by routing mechanisms. Removing redundant and unnecessary topology information is usually called topology management or topology control. The topology control plays a key role in the performance of a routing protocol simply because the wrong topology information can considerably reduce the capacity, increase the end-to-end delay and routing control overhead, and decrease the robustness to node failure
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