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ND++ – an extended IPv6 Neighbor Discovery protocol for enhanced stateless address autoconfiguration in MANETs
Author(s) -
Grajzer Monika,
Żernicki Tomasz,
Głąbowski Mariusz
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.2472
Subject(s) - computer science , neighbor discovery protocol , computer network , stateless protocol , ipv6 , mobile ad hoc network , ipv6 address , testbed , ip address management , routing protocol , arp spoofing , flooding (psychology) , distributed computing , the internet , internet protocol , routing (electronic design automation) , network packet , world wide web , psychology , psychotherapist
SUMMARY Recent trends in information and communications technologies are oriented toward the design of the Future Internet and the Internet of Things. While IPv6‐based mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are emerging as an important building block of these new technologies, it is necessary to come up with adequate self‐configuration capabilities allowing for seamless and automated configuration of addresses in mobile environment. The mechanisms of stateless address autoconfiguration proposed for IPv6 networks are supposed to automate some configuration steps; however, they would need to be aligned with the requirements imposed by MANET networks. Therefore, in this article, we present Neighbor Discovery ++ – an extended IPv6 Neighbor Discovery protocol for enhanced duplicate address detection in MANETs, which provides increased coverage of network nodes, while minimizing protocol overhead. It exploits efficient flooding mechanism on the basis of the multipoint relay concept, which makes it an interesting approach also for large‐scale networks. Trials performed on the designated real‐world testbed platform indicate that ND++ is a promising solution to support efficient address autoconfiguration in MANETs. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.