Contents -- Wireless Sensors -- Energy-Efficient Application-Aware Communication for Wireless Sensor Networks R.M. Passos, C. J. N. Coelho, A.A.E Loureiro, R.A.E Mini (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A New Application-Aware DPM Approach -- 3. Performance Evaluation -- 4. Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- SDMA in Connections between Wireless Sensors and Wired Network V. Hasu, H. Koivo (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Link Between Wireless Sensors And Wired Network -- 3. SDMA - Beamforming -- 4. Simulation Study Of Line-Of-Sight Connections -- 4.1 Simulation Specifications -- 4.2 Results -- 4.3 Extensions To SDMA/TDMA Systems With Power Control -- 5. A Case Simulation Study Of Wireless Nodes In An Industrial Hall -- 5.1 Simulation Specifications -- 5.2 Results -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- A Reliable and Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks P. K. Loh, S. H. Long (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) -- Y. Pan (Georgia State University, USA) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Protocol Design Details -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. Setup Phase -- 2.3. Route Management -- 2.3.1. RouteLength Metric -- 2.3.2. Routescore Metric -- 2.3.3. Route Replacement -- 2.4. Data Dissemination -- 2.5. Route Update -- 3. Simulation -- 3.1. Results -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Analysis of Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks J. Wang, L. Wang (Central South University, China) -- R. Xiao (National Nature Science Foundation of China, China) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Network Model and Problem Statement -- 3. The Proposed Solutions -- 3.1. Coverage: Poccupyall(N) and Noccupyall(Pth) -- 3.2. The probability Q(k) of k-cells Connection -- 3.3. Connectivity and Coverage Pconn/p(P) -- 3.4. Connectivity Pconn(N) -- 4. Conclusion -- References.

MANET -- Cross-layer's Paradigm Features in MANET: Benefits and Challenges L. Romdhani, C. Bonnet (EURECOM Institute, France) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Limitations of Layered Approach in MANET -- 2.1. Limitations Related to Physical Layer's Characteristics -- 2.2. Limitations Related to MAC layer's Characteristics -- 2.3. Limitations Related to Routing Layer's Characteristics -- 2.4. Limitations Related to Transport Layer's Characteristics -- 2.5. Energy conservation -- 2.6. Limitations Related to Application Layer's Characteristics -- 3. Review and Discussion of Cross-Layer Proposals -- 3.1. Physical layer + MAC -- 3.2. Physical layer + MAC + routing -- 3.3. MAC + Routing + network layer -- 3.4. Physical layer + MAC + Application -- 4. The Implementation Cost of a Cross-Layer Architecture -- 5. Achieving a good trade-off between complexity and enhancement in cross-layer architectures -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Two Bandwidth-Violation Problems and Bandwidth-Satisfied Multicast Trees in MANETs C.C. Hu, G.H. Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) -- E. H. K. Wu (National Central University, Taiwan) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bandwidth-reservation and related problems -- 3. Heuristic algorithm -- 4. Performance analysis -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- LAP-RRP: A Reliable Routing Protocol with Link Availability Prediction in MANET J. Wang, J. He (Central South University, China) -- X. Lu, (National University of Defense Technology, China) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Network Model -- 3. LAP-RRP Protocol -- 3.1. Link Availability Prediction -- 3.2. A Reliable Routing Protocol LAP-RRP -- 4. Simulation Environment and Results -- 4.1. Simulation environment and merits -- 4.2. The analysis of simulation results -- (1) Network performance with different epochs -- (2) Network performance with different mobility speeds.

(3) Network performance with the number of nodes -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- An Efficient Load-Balancing Algorithm for Supporting QoS in MANET M. Brahma, K.W Kim, A. Abouaissa, P. Lorenz, (University of Haute Alsace, France) -- M.M.O. Lee (University of Dongshin, Korea) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous and related Works -- 3. Efficient load-Balancing algorithm in IEEE 802.11 -- 3.1. Scenario -- 3.2. Message format and procedure of load-balancing -- Determine queue status -- Decision to send HELP message -- 4. Performance evaluation -- 4.1. Simulation configuration -- 4.2. Numerical results of 20 nodes model -- 4.3. Numerical results of a random topology model -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- A Bandwidth-Efficient Cross Layer Probability Routing for MANETs X. Wang, H. Yu, C. Ran, X. Zhang, W Qi, (Information Science and Engineering Institute, China) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. BECLPR -- 2.1. Computation of the available senrt/receive bandwidth of the node -- 2.2. ABAPMN -- 2.3. Modifications made for BECLPR based on AODV -- 3. Performance evaluation -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Ad Hoc (I) -- Efficient Bandwidth Allocation for Basic Broadcast and Point-to-Point Services in the ADHOC MAC Protocol J. R. Ga'llego, A. Herna'ndez-Solana, M. Canales, A. Valdovinos, (University of Zaragoza, Spain) -- L. Campelli, M. Cesana, A. Capone, E Borgonovo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The ADHOC MAC Protocol -- 2.1. Basic Operation Mode for BCH and point-to-point Communications -- 2.2. Bandwidth allocation strategies -- 3. Performance evaluation -- 3.1. Bandwidth allocation evaluation -- 3.2. Analysis of the point-to-point efficiency -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Connectivity Aware Routing in Ad-hoc Networks J. Leguay, T. Friedman, S. Fdida, (University Pierre et Marie Curie, France).

K Conan, A. Cotton, (Thales Communications, France) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Motivations -- 3. The QoS Routing Framework -- 4. Connectivity Metrics -- 5. Evaluation -- 5.1. Metric performances -- 5.2. Network simulations -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion and future work -- References -- A New Approach for TDMA Scheduling in Ad-hoc Networks D.D. Vergados, D. J. Vergados, (University of the Aegean, Greece): C. Douligeris, (Univeristy of Piraeus, Greece) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Network Model -- 3. The proposed algorithm for Ad-hoc Networks -- 4. Performance Analysis -- 4.1. Complexity Analysis -- 4.2. Frame Length -- 4.3. Capacity -- 4.4. Throughput -- 4.5. Fairness Index -- 5. Simulation Results -- 5.1. Comparison with previous algorithms -- 5.2. Simulation of random networks -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- A Self Organizing Algorithm for Ad-Hoc Networks N. Kettaf A. Abouaissa, P. Lorenz, (University of Haute Alsace, France) -- H. Guyennet, (University of Franche-Comte, France) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview on existing works -- 3. System model and assumptions -- 4. Leader election algorithm -- 4.1. Phase one: dynamic nodes grouping -- 4.1.1. Signal power: -- 4.1.2. Mobility: -- 4.2. Phase two: leader election -- 5. Simulations -- 5.1. Simulation environment -- 6. Results and Discussion -- 6.1. Bandwidth -- 6.2. Energy -- 6.3. Throughput -- 7. Conclusion and perspectives -- References -- HDSR, Hierarchiacal Dynamic Source Routing for Heterogeneous Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks M. Naserian, K.E. Tepe, M. Tarique, (University of Windsor, Canada) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hierarchical Dynamic Source Routing Protocol -- 3. Simulation Model and Results -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Ad Hoc (II) -- Analyzing the Effect of Cooperation Approaches M. Frank, M. Holschbach, P. Martini, M. Plaggemeier, (University of Bonn, Germany) -- 1. Introduction.

2. Related Work -- 3. Modelling Ad Hoc Networks -- 4. The Accuracy of the Model -- 5 . Analyzing the Effects -- 5.1. Networks without any Cooperation Approach -- 5.2. Improving the Forwarding Behavior of one Class -- 5.3. Improving the Forwarding Behavior of all Classes -- 5.4. Increasing the Percentage of one class -- 6. Simulation Results -- 7. Conclusion and Next Steps -- References -- Mobility Management in Multihops Wireless Access Networks F. Theoleyre, F. Valois (Inria Ares, France) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Related Work -- 3. Proposition -- 3.1. Mobility Management -- 3.1.1. Upload -- 3.1.2. Download -- 3.1.3. Ad HOC Routing -- 3.2. Paging and Power-energy saving Schemes -- 4. Performance Evaluation -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Location Update Protection for Geographic Ad Hoc Routing Z. Zhou, K.C. Yow (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Threats of Geographic Routing -- 3. Location Update Protection -- 3.1. LLU-0 -- 3.2. LLU-1 -- 3.3. LLU-2 -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- PEDCF: Predictive Enhanced Service Differentiation for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks based on AutoRegressive-Moving Average Processes N. Tabbane, S. Tabbane (SUP'COM, Tunisia) -- A. Mehaoua, (University of Versailles, France) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Predictive EDCF (PEDCF) scheme -- 2.1. ARMA: mixed AutoRegressive-Moving Average model -- 2.2. Setting CW after each Update Period Tupdate -- 2.3. Complexity of PEDCF -- 3. Simulation Methodology and Results -- 3.1. Impact of the trafflc load -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- IEEE 802.11 -- A Carrier-Sense based Transmission Power Control Protocol for 802.11 Networks J. Rao, S. Biswas (Michigan State University, USA) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Related Work -- 3. CARRIER-SENSE BASED NAV EXTENSION FOR POWER CONTROL (CSNE-PC) -- 3.1. Protocol Description.

3.2. Measurement based CTS Detection.