This book is the ideal guide for those for desktop support technicians and administrators who are in the trenches.

This book starts from the observation that, while pure general-purpose mobile ad hoc networks - MANETs - did not yet happened in the real world, the multi-hop Ad Hoc networking paradigm has been successfully applied in several classes of networks that are penetrating the mass market and are opening cutting edge research directions.

Written by Martyn Mallick, this book provides detailed information on varied topics such as Challenges in building successful wireless applications and possible solutions, Development options for building Smart Client applications and related techniques, Development options for building Thin Client wireless applications and related techniques, Integration with existing enterprise data such system, Other services such as PIM (personal information manager) and location based services that can be incorporated into these applications.