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-‘air-drop’ is an ‘ad-hoc service’ in apple’s iOS/macOS operating systems, introduced in Mac OS X Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) and iOS 7, which enables the transfer of files among supported ‘macintosh computers / iOS devices’ without using ‘e-mail’ or a ‘mass storage device’-
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(a ‘wireless ad hoc network’ or ‘mobile ad hoc network’ (MANET) is a decentralized type of ‘wireless network’)
The network is ad hoc because it does not rely on a pre-existing infrastructure, such as routers in wired networks or access points in managed (infrastructure) wireless networks.
Instead, each node participates in routing by forwarding data for other nodes, so the determination of which nodes forward data is made dynamically on the basis of network connectivity and the routing algorithm in use.
In the Windows operating system, ad-hoc is a communication mode (setting) that allows computers to directly communicate with each other without a router.
Wireless mobile ad hoc networks are self-configuring, dynamic networks in which nodes are free to move.
Such wireless networks lack the complexities of infrastructure setup and administration, enabling devices to create and join networks “on the fly” – anywhere, anytime.
A true MANET by definition requires multicast routing, not just unicast or broadcast.
Each device in a MANET is free to move independently in any direction, and will therefore change its links to other devices frequently.
Each must forward traffic unrelated to its own use, and therefore be a router.
The primary challenge in building a MANET is equipping each device to continuously maintain the information required to properly route traffic.
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(this becomes harder as the scale of the MANET increases due to…)
the desire to route packets to/through every other node,
2) the percentage of overhead traffic needed to maintain real-time routing status,
3) each node has its own goodput to route independent and unaware of others needs, and
4) all must share limited communication bandwidth, such as a slice of radio spectrum.
Such networks may operate by themselves or may be connected to the larger Internet.
They may contain one or multiple and different transceivers between nodes.
This results in a highly dynamic/autonomous topology.
MANETs usually have a routable networking environment on top of a Link Layer ad hoc network.
MANETs consist of a peer-to-peer, self-forming, self-healing network.
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(MANETs circa 2000–2015 typically communicate at ‘radio frequencies’…)
(30 MHz – 5 GHz)
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