DEVELOPMENT OF A MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK

In the last two decades, the digital mobile communication services grew rapidly. In the 1990s, the digital services started as the second generation of mobile communications withthe Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) improved by the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE). The thirdgeneration used the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) with the HighSpeed Packet Access (HSPA) improvement. Nowadays, the fourth generation of suchservices is in use which is called Long Term Evolution (LTE). To provide fast and easyaccess to the Internet in a lot of different places, the number of Wi-Fi hotspots is increasing rapidly. Wi-Fi stands for a trademark which specifies devices for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard and is a subgroup of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). In this work both names are used interchangeably