Ad Hoc Networking

Rating:
Summary: Expert look at ad hoc networking
Review: Although the editor did not make a serious effort to transform the different protocols into a coherent set of chapters, the book is still the best out there that explains the main concepts of ad hoc networking protocol design. I will use it in my class, although it requires a lot of background and it will be for graduate research students.
It is not a text book. But it is a very valuable book for researchers and networking engineers interested in this field.
The authors (not editor) present some of their best and most valuable contribution to this field. Without those protocols it is quite hard to understand the design trade-offs in this new and emerging field of ad hoc networks. You get first hand explanations from Johnson, Perkins, J.J. Garcia, Haas, and others that are top researchers in this field (you have to be in this field to appreciate them). It is much better than C.K.Toh's book (who is focused on his own work and doesn't provide a larger, big picture, view of others protocol designs). I hope the next edition will incorportate some serious editing though I like it as a starting research point as is.

Rating:
Summary: Not worth it.
Review: I gave this book four stars because some of the chapters are written in an unnecessarily dry, opaque, academic style. However, that's not what's important. While it's not for everyone, there are many people who I feel *MUST READ* this book. It deals with protocols, particularly routing protocols, developed for use in a very challenging environment, where nodes come and go and move frequently, where connections never last, etc. A lot of what has been learned from studying this environment can be used to improve the less-dynamic Internet itself. A lot of it, in fact, represents a return to the Internet's roots, when the intent was to be more fully decentralized, thus more robust and also more "democratic".

There's a particularly important message in this book for peer-to-peer (P2P) developers. Many of the protocols described in this book, many of the problems found and overcome with/by those protocols, are *exactly* the same problems as those P2P developers are now facing and struggling with. Well, guys, you don't have to go it alone. This book proves that there is technology already out there that can help you, and before you go reinventing (inferior) wheels, *READ THIS BOOK*. Put down that hundredth book you're reading about crypto, and learn something about the state of the art in routing.

Rating:
Summary: Re: Book only good for a quick look
Review: I like the cover but was mistaken by
the book. I thought I would get more
content out of it than its current
form. I wonder why the editor do this?
I mean doing an edited book on a new
field?? Why not have a real book
instead? I think having this book out
first (time to market) but without
proper tutorial content didn't quite
help me and my colleagues. We need to
learn about this new field. Overall,
we think efforts would be better paid
off by writing a proper book than an
edited one.

Rating:
Summary: Do not buy it!
Review: It`s just a "collection" of OLD papers. You can get anything
in this book other sources. Ad hoc network is changing very
fast, it`s really a bad idea to publish things that will
outdate soon.

Rating:
Summary: It was a mistake
Review: It`s just a "collection" of OLD papers. You can get anything
in this book other sources. Ad hoc network is changing very
fast, it`s really a bad idea to publish things that will
outdate soon.

Rating:
Summary: Expert look at ad hoc networking
Review: Truly the best of research is collected in this book. In depth analysis on all important topics in ad hoc networks.
It is really a collection of some of the best works in this field(not a coherent book),... so it should be read as such.
Excellent experience.

Rating:
Summary: It was a mistake
Review: We bought this book for company work and only
to realize that it doesn't teach us very much.
We are looking for real content. Names of authors
do not matter much to us. We are a major technical
consultancy company working on state-of-the-art
technologies.. Pls guys, provide more content
instead of editing.