The proliferation of mobile devices has changed the trends by which people access and share contents in the communication world, leading to migration from the wired to wireless networks with high expectations of ubiquitous connectivity. These trends have motivated researchers to have interests in the future advanced mobile communications. In this paper, we concentrate on one of the most promising types of network, that is, mobile ad hoc network (MANET). Due to the highly dynamic network topology and resource shortage of MANET and the limited energy of communicating nodes, the communication route among nodes may fail frequently. To increase the applicability and sustainability of MANET in the future communication environment, we propose here a new routing protocol that constructs a stable, a reliable, and the shortest route having nodes with the minimum level of remaining energy to increase the operational lifetime of MANET. It also introduces a recovery scheme that reduces the network control overhead significantly to increase the reliability of the network. The effectiveness and robustness of our protocol and the corresponding data delivery mechanism make an ideal solution that can go a long way toward effective data dissemination in the future network.

Content-centric networking has been recently proposed to define a new networking architecture where the content itself becomes the core of communications rather than the address or location. In terms of availability and efficient delivery of data, content-centric networking has been the main focus to a great extent. Currently, the content-centric networking architecture for the wireless environment is not yet clearly defined. In this paper, we propose a possible architecture for multimedia content delivery in the wireless environment, which is based on content-centric networking. We also present simulation results to show that the proposed architecture works well in the wireless network.

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A mobile ad-hoc network includes a collection of mobile nodes where each node is self organizing, infrastructureless and resource constrained. Due to the dynamic topology and resource shortage of MANETs and the limited energy of mobile nodes, the communication route among nodes may fail frequently. We propose here a new routing protocol that constructs a stable and shortest hop route containing nodes with the minimum level of remaining energy to increase the operational lifetime of MANETs. It also introduces a recovery scheme that reduces the network control overhead dramatically to increase the reliability of the network. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol outperforms the state-of-the-art protocols.