Self-Organization in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

The communication between nodes of an ad hoc network is organized in a local manner, this means there is no centralized coordinator that controls the nodes. The general idea of a self-organization is that a global order arises form local interactions between system components and a higher level of order is called emergent property of the system. Therefore we could say that an ad hoc network can be considered as a self-organizing system and connectivity as an emergent property. In this paper we examine how simple simulations of self-organizing systems behave and whether it is possible to use the acquired knowledge to improve ad hoc network protocols