An Overview of Auto-configuration Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Multi-hop Network

摘要

An ad hoc wireless IP multi-hop network is a collection of wireless IP protocol capable nodesthat start in an unknown physical formation in the vicinity of a wireless IP portal to a wired IPnetwork. While some wireless nodes might be in radio (wireless) range of the portal, othernodes might only be in radio range of one or more other nodes that in turn may in range of theportal and/or other wireless nodes. IP data-grams would travel from one node to another untilthe data-gram is delivered to the portal or the destination node. All wireless nodes are assumedto be one or more hop away from the wireless IP portal. This paper reviews an autoconfiguremethod of a mobile ad hoc network and to route IP traffic using existing mobile adhoc network routing protocols. This method have the best characteristics in protocol overhead,robustness, convergence time, and scalability. The optimal mobile ad hoc network routingprotocol can be chosen which best meets these characteristics for the given topology andoperational profile. Finally, this method will efficiently use the address space allotted to theDHCP server.