These new standards must be able to cope with the typical environment of mobile ad-hoc networks, especially changes between two communicating mobile nodes. New protocols need to be developed; these protocols must be capable of differentiating between the various service requirements of mobile users and be able to response to the topology changes in the network. All these issues must be addressed in order to provide standard quality of service for mobile ad-hoc networks.

For more than 20 years, David Gewirtz, the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? and The Flexible Enterprise, has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and is a member of the instructional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley extension. He can be reached at david@zatz.com.