A Low Overhead Address Assignment Method in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

• MASE Kenichi

  Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University

• NARITA Satoshi

  Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University

• YOSHIDA Sota

  Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University

Abstract

We propose an efficient IP address assignment protocol in mobile ad hoc networks, which use a proactive routing protocol. In this method, which is termed the Bisected-Range based Assignment (BRA), a node repeatedly broadcasts an Agent Request to ask for address assignment. If there are one or more neighbor MANET nodes, one of them becomes an agent to select and assign an IP address to the requesting node. We use address location in the IP address space so that each agent maintains its own exclusive address range to be used for address selection, resulting to decrease the possibility of address conflict. If the requesting node cannot discover any neighbor MANET node over pre-determined random agent-search time, it selects by itself an IP address at random from the given address block. We evaluate performance of the basic and enhanced BRAs by computer simulation. It is shown that the basic and enhanced BRAs can reduce address conflict compared with random assignment. It is also shown that the enhanced BRA is superior in terms of control traffic overhead as well as address assignment delay over the random assignment with the strong Duplicate Address Detection.

Journal

• IEICE transactions on communications

  IEICE transactions on communications 87 (9), 2467-2476, 2004-09-01

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Keywords

• IP address
• autoconfiguration
• MANET
• ad hoc network

Details

• CRID: 1573950402085834368
• NII Article ID: 110003222524
• NII Book ID: AA10826261
• ISSN: 09168516
• Text Lang: en
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