Abstract:
Recently, the advances in portable computing and wireless
technologies are opening up exciting possibilities for the future of
wireless mobile networking. This rapid penetration has stimulated
a change in the expectations of wireless users. Mobile Ad hoc
Networks (MANETs) have evolved a great deal over the past two
decades and considered as one of the most important and essential
technologies to support future pervasive computing scenarios.
MANETs have gained significant interest and popularity since
they have enormous potential in several fields of applications.
Absence of infrastructure, self-configuring and mobility are the
main reasons behind this popularity. The contribution of this
research is its brief description of the different evaluation schemes
that are used for MANETs and other networks. Previous efforts
have not surveyed these evaluation methods. Hence, this paper is
very useful to research community to choose the suitable
evaluation method for their research.
