JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 13(1): 4-31, doi: 10.3217/jucs-013-01-0004
Duplicate Address Detection and Autoconfiguration in OLSR
expand article infoSaadi Boudjit‡, Cédric Adjih§, Paul Mühlethaler§, Anis Laouiti|
‡ GET/ENST, France§ INRIA, France| GET/INT, France

Corresponding author: Saadi Boudjit ( saadi.boudjit@enst.fr )

© Saadi Boudjit, Cédric Adjih, Paul Mühlethaler, Anis Laouiti.
This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.
Citation: Boudjit S, Adjih C, Mühlethaler P, Laouiti A (2007) Duplicate Address Detection and Autoconfiguration in OLSR. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 13(1): 4-31. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-013-01-0004
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Abstract
Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are infrastructure-free, highly dynamic wireless networks, where central administration or configuration by the user is very difficult. In hardwired networks nodes usually rely on a centralized server and use a dynamic host configuration protocol, like DHCP [Droms et al. 2003], to acquire an IP address. Such a solution cannot be deployed in MANETs due to the unavailability of any centralized DHCP server. For small scale MANETs, it may be possible to allocate free IP addresses manually. However, the procedure becomes impractical for a large-scale or open system where mobile nodes are free to join and leave.
Keywords
MANET, autoconfiguration, OLSR