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Journals

Conferences

Computing Surveys, ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR), ACM SIGCOMM Communications Magazine, IEEE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MCCR), ACM SIGMOBILE Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier Computer Networks, Elsevier Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Network, IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), ACM/Kluwer Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley Personal Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE

SIGCOMM, ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, ACM INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE MILCOM GLOBECOM, IEEE VTC, IEEE SECON, IEEE MASS, IEEE ICPP ICDCS, IEEE IPDPS, IEEE

Bibliography in multi-hop wireless networking

• Generics

  • Historical aspects
    1. Charles Perkins. A DoD persective on mobile ad hoc networks. Chapter 2 of Ad Hoc Networking, Addison-Wesley, 2001 (ISBN 0-201-3976-9)
    2. Barry M. Leiner, Donald L. Nielson, and Fouad A. Tobagi. Issues in packet radio network design. In Proceedings of the IEEE (Special issue, packet radio networks), 75(1):6-20, January 1987
    3. Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Lawrence G. Roberts, and Stephen S. Wolff. The past and future history of the Internet. In Communications of the ACM, 40(2):102-108, Febuary 1997.
  • Speculation
    1. Leonard Kleinrock. An Internet vision: the invisible global infrastructure. In Ad Hoc Networks, 1(1) July 2003
    2. Mark Weiser. The Computer for the 21st Century. In Scientific American (Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks), September 1991
  • Comprehensive reviews
    1. Imrich Chlamtac, Marco Conti, and Jennifer J.-N. Liu. Mobile ad hoc networking: imperatives and challenges. In Ad Hoc Networks, 1(1):13-64, July 2003

• Routing in MANETs

  • Reviews, surveys, and comparisons
    1. Changling Liu and Jorg Kaiser. A Survey of Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols. TR-4, MINEMA, University of Magdeburg, October 2005
    2. Liang Qin and Thomas Kunz. Survey on Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols and Cross-Layer Design. SCE-04-14, Carleton University, August 2004
    3. Mehran Abolhansan, Tadeusz Wysocki, and Eryk Dutkiewicz. A review of routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. In Ad Hoc Networks, 2(1):1-22, 2004
    4. S. Ramanathan and Martha Steenstrup. A Survey of Routing Techniques for Mobile Communications Networks. In Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), 1(2):89-103, 1996
  • Route metrics
    1. Richard Draves, Jitendra Padhye, and Brian Zill. Routing in multi-radio, multi-hop wireless mesh networks. In Proceedings of MobiCom, pp 114-128, 2004 [ETT]
    2. Douglas S. J. De Couto, Daniel Aguayo, John Bicket, and Robert Morris. A high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless routing. In Proceedings of MobiCom, pp 134-146, 2003 [ETX]
    3. Rohit Dube, Cynthia D. Rais, Kuang-YehWang, and Satish K. Tripathi. Signal stability based adaptive routing (SSA) for ad hoc mobile networks. In IEEE Personal Communications, 4(1):36-45, February 1997
    4. Chai-Keong Toh. A novel distributed routing protocol to support ad-hoc mobile computing. In Proceedings of 15th IEEE Annual International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, pp 480-486, 1996 [ABR]
  • Secure routing
    1. Yih-Chun Hu and Adrian Perrig. A Survey of Secure Wireless Ad Hoc Routing. In IEEE Security & Privacy, 2(3):28-39, May-June 2004

• Scalability, hierarchy, topology control, clustering and capacity

  • Scalability
    1. Cesar A. Santivanez and Bruce McDonald and Ioannis Stavrakakis and Ram Ramanathan. On the scalability of ad hoc routing protocols. In Proceedings of INFOCOM, pp 1688-1697, June 2002
    2. Onur Arpacioglu and Tara Small and Zygmunt Haas. Notes on Scalability of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. IETF Internet draft, draft-irtf-ans-scalability-notes-01.txt, December 2003
  • Hierarchical routing
    1. Leonard Kleinrock and Farouk Kamoun. Hierarchical routing for large networks: performance evaluation and optimization. In Computer Networks 1(3):155-174, 1977
  • Clustering
    1. Yuanzhu Peter Chen and Arthur L. Liestman. Approximating Minimum Size Weakly-Connected Dominating Sets for Clustering Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In Proceedings of MobiHoc, pp 157-164, 2002
    2. Yuanzhu Peter Chen, Arthur L. Liestman, and Jiangchuan Liu. Clustering Algorithms for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. In Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, ed. Y. Pan and Y. Xiao. Nova Science Publishers 2004

• Wireless sensor networking

  • Generics
    1. John A. Stankovic. Wireless Sensor Networks. In IEEE Computer, 41(10):92-95, October 2008

• Opportunistic networking

  • Opportunistic forwarding
    1. Sanjit Biswas and Robert Morris. ExOR: opportunistic multi-hop routing for wireless networks. In SIGCOMM, 2005 [ExOR]
    2. Szymon Chachulski, Michael Jennings, Sachin Katti and Dina Katabi. Trading Structure for Randomness in Wireless Opportunistic Routing. In SIGCOMM, 2007 [MORE]

• Network coding

  • Wireless networks
    1. Szymon Chachulski, Michael Jennings, Sachin Katti and Dina Katabi. Trading Structure for Randomness in Wireless Opportunistic Routing. In SIGCOMM, 2007 [MORE]
    2. Sachin Katti, Shyamnath Gollakota and Dina Katabi. Embracing Wireless Interference: Analog Network Coding. In SIGCOMM, 2007 [ANC]
    3. Sachin Katti, Dina Katabi, Hari Balakrishnan and Muriel Medard. Symbol-Level Network Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks. In SIGCOMM, 2008 [MIXIT]

• Cross-layer design

  • Reviews
    1. Liang Qin and Thomas Kunz. Survey on Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols and Cross-Layer Design. SCE-04-14, Carleton University, August 2004

• Communication theory, coding, and signals

  • Coding
    1. A. R. Calderbank. The art of signaling: fifty years of coding theory. In IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 44(6):2561-2595, 1998
  • Communication theory
    1. Claude E. Shannon. A mathematical theory of communication. In Bell System Technical Journal 27:623-656, 1948

• Experimental studies

  • Hybrid approaches
    1. Mahesh Marina, Zhiguo Xu, Junlan Zhou and Rajive Bagrodia. Utility of Hybrid Wireless Experimentation for Evaluation of Heterogeneous Wireless Architectures and Cross-Layer Protocol. In ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MCCR) 12(3):9-17, July 2008