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A novel and efficient address configuration for MANET
Author(s) -
Li Yanli,
Wang Xiaonan
Publication year - 2019
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.4059
Subject(s) - computer science , mobile ad hoc network , scheme (mathematics) , node (physics) , computer network , control reconfiguration , distributed computing , uniqueness , embedded system , mathematical analysis , mathematics , structural engineering , network packet , engineering
Summary At present, one technical challenge of MANET is the address configuration, and another technical challenge is to deal with the network merging in order to ensure the address uniqueness in the merging network. This paper proposes a scheme to address these two issues. In the scheme, the MANET architecture is presented, and based on the architecture the address configuration algorithm is proposed. This algorithm employs an allocation variable to achieve the address configuration, and a node can ensure the address uniqueness without any interactions with other nodes. In order to effectively detect the network merging, this scheme proposes the generation algorithm of the MANET ID which uniquely identifies MANET. Based on this generation algorithm, the network merging algorithm is proposed. In this algorithm, only the nodes with the duplicate address perform the address reconfiguration, so the network merging cost and delay are reduced. This scheme is evaluated, and the results show that this scheme effectively improves the address configuration performance and the network merging performance.