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C. K. Toh’s Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks: Protocols and Systems – Age of Pervasive Mobile Networking and Computing, published by Dorling Kindersley, is a comprehensive book for Computer Science and Information Science engineering students. Wireless networks include both infrastructured and non-infrastructured systems. Infrastructured wireless networks refer to the base station oriented WLANs. This book details on routing, which is the most important difference between Ad Hoc networks and base station networks. It discusses new routing protocols for Ad Hoc networks like Associativity Based routing (ABR) and other IETF MANET protocols. Implementation issues are also discussed and the book presents prototype implementation. All concepts are explained in simple and lucid language for better comprehension. About Dorling Kindersley Dorling Kindersley is a British multinational publishing company which is known for creating and publishing high quality, illustrated books and also numerous online resources. It is based in London and was found in the year 1974. DK is a part of the Penguin Random House Group and is spread across in many major cities in different continents, including New Delhi, India. They publish books of all genres. Some of the most popular books produced by DK in India are Encyclopaedia of Plants and Flowers, The Motorbike Book, Natural History, Eyewitness Dinosaur and Where to Go When, among many other works.