Technology of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2026 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ad hoc networks; sensor networks; cooperative localization in wireless networks; radio tomographic imaging
Interests: self-organized networking; cognitive radio; cooperative communications; full duplex communications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ad hoc networks are pivotal in enabling decentralized, self-configuring communication systems for applications ranging from emergency response to smart cities. Ad hoc networking covers a variety of network paradigms including mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs), vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), airborne networks, underwater networks, personal area networks, collaborative robotics (CoBots), etc.
With the rapid evolution of IoT, 5G/6G, AI/ML, and UAVs, ad hoc networks have been facing new opportunities and challenges. For example, MANETs may become edge networks and computing for 5G/6G; AI and machine learning could be utilized to predict node movement, optimize routing, or detect security threats; biology algorithms such as colony optimization could be introduced to UAVs; blockchain could be used to enhance the security and trust mechanism of VANETs; network coding could be leveraged to fight against wiretap attacks and TAAs (Traffic Analysis Attacks), and so on.
This Special Issue invites high-quality research addressing theoretical, practical, and innovative aspects of ad hoc networks.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Mobile and wireless ad hoc networks;
- Sensor networks;
- Wireless local and personal area networks;
- Novel architectures for ad hoc and sensor networks;
- Distributed or collaborative AI for future ad hoc networks;
- Transport layer protocols;
- Routing protocols;
- Media access control techniques;
- Power-aware, low-power, and energy-efficient designs;
- Network coding;
- Trust, security, and privacy;
- Mobility management;
- Mobility-tolerant communication protocols;
- Location tracking and location-based services;
- Resource and information management;
- Security and fault-tolerance issues;
- Hardware and software platforms, systems, and testbeds;
- Experimental and prototype results;
- Quality-of-service issues;
- Cross-layer interactions;
- Scalability issues;
- Performance analysis and simulation of protocols.
Dr. Heng Liu
Prof. Dr. Zhongshan Zhang
Dr. Xiaozheng Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ad hoc networks
- MANET
- WSNs
- network optimization
- network coding
- network security
- wireless localization
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