Abstract:
An ad hoc network is a collection of mobile nodes using wireless network
interfaces to communicate among themselves, discovering and routing along possibly
multihop routes to each other without the assistance of fixed infrastructure. Multimedia
conferencing on wired networks has been studied and implemented by several software
vendors such as Microsoft NetMeeting. However, multimedia applications on wireless
endpoint devices such as PDA’s, iPAQs, etc. have not been researched and implemented
widely. Personal communications and mobile computing requires a wireless network
infrastructure which is fast deployable, multihop, and capable of multimedia service
support on wireless endpoint devices such as iPAQs. Such rapidly deployable networks
are categorized as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETS).
This project explores the difficulties of deploying multimedia applications on
position aware personal area mobile ad hoc wireless networks (PAPAMANETS) and
implements a prototype for it.
