Dense MANET
We use the term dense MANET to indicate a MANET that:
- includes a large number of wireless devices located in a relatively small area at the same time,
e.g., as it will probably happen in the near future in shopping malls,
airport waiting rooms, and university campuses;
- has a node density (the average number of wireless nodes at single-hop distance from any dense MANET participant)
that is almost invariant during long time intervals.
More formally, a dense MANET is defined as the set of MANET nodes DM(n) = {d0, …, dN-1}, where
i) ∀ j ∈ [0, N-1]: dj has at least n neighbors at single-hop distance, and
ii) the spatial node density in the area where DM(n) nodes are is almost constant with regards to time.