Architectural considerations for mobile mesh networking

Mobile communications is central to many military operations and is necessary to communicate simultaneously with multiple warfighters engaged in a common task. This paper describes the problem of routing and resource reservation in mobile mesh networks and presents architectural recommendations necessary for Internet protocols to operate effectively in these environments. A "mobile mesh" network is an autonomous system of mobile routers connected by wireless links, the union of which form an arbitrary graph. The routers are free to move randomly; thus, the network's wireless topology may change rapidly and unpredictably.

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