Wireless Ad-hoc Networks lies under the umbrella of IEEE 802.11 standard as well but unlike WLAN, they don't have a centralized hub/router. The devices are responsible for routing the packets across the networks. Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a sibling of Ad-hoc Networks with the only difference of traffic abnormalities and mobility. Ad-hoc networks are more dynamics as compare to WMN and they have more traffic irregularity than WMN.
In Ad-hoc networks, the device acts as a router to transmit traffic between peers if the destination device is not directly connected to the sender device. This formation of devices is reliable because each device is connected to another device in a mesh, giving alternate routes to any ...
