WMAN 2008 - KuVS Fachgespräch über Mobile Ad-hoc Netzwerke

Address auto-configuration process is one of the most essential issues for Ad hoc networks (MANETs). Before nodes participate in multi-hops communication, they must be assigned an IP address. Uniqueness, fast assignment, conflicts solving and reusability of the IP addresses in MANETs are the main topics of the auto-configuration process. Several address auto-configuration protocols have been proposed for MANETs. However, in case of failures due to partitioning and merging networks, these protocols fail to satisfy all of those topics. In this work we present a new proposal to handle the MANETs issues in case of partitioning and merging networks.