| MANET | Sensor Network (A Special MANET)
| A group of mobile computing devices that are equipped with
WLAN capability.
| WSN is a wireless network consisting
of spatially
distributed autonomous devices using sensors to cooperatively
monitor physical or environmental conditions
at different locations.
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Nodes can transmit packets to each other to construct an Intranet
without the assistance of any base station (Access Point).
| Nodes help each other to forward packets from hop to hop such that two nodes that can't hear each other can transmit data to each other.
Each node is typically equipped with a radio transceiver, a
small microcontroller and a battery.
| Size and cost constraints on sensor nodes result in corresponding constraints on resources such as energy, memory, computational speed and communication bandwidth. |
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