New Capabilities in Security and QoS Using the Updated MANET Routing Protocol OLSRv2.

摘要

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are a good fit to a number of military and public safety scenarios in which security and quality of service (QoS) are important. Optimised Link State Routing (OLSR) is a widely used proactive ad hoc routing protocol; a successor version 2 (OLSRv2) is being developed as a Standards Track protocol by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Improvements in OLSRv2 are detailed and matched to specific weaknesses of OLSRv1. How two of these improvements, a flexible packet/message format and the use of link metrics, enable improvements in security and quality of service in an OLSRv2-based MANET is described.