Evaluation Of Proactive Multipath routing protocols for MANET s - Ravinder Singh Mann - Bog

The conceptual shift in expectations of wireless users from voice towards multimedia, from availability towards acceptable quality, and from stand-alone towards group-oriented computing has a significant impact on today¿s networks in terms of the need for mobility, quality of service (QoS) and multicasting. Ad hoc networks, being independent of any fixed infrastructure, can provide mobile users with these features, if necessary QoS multicasting strategies are developed.