Fault-tolerant Dynamic Host Auto-configuration Protocol for Heterogeneous MANETs

Host auto-configuration of mobile hosts is a key issue in the mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) as hosts cannot participate in unicast routing without unique addresses. A distributed agent based dynamic host auto-configuration protocol for heterogeneous MANET nodes is presented in this paper. In this approach, every address agent has a disjoint set of IP addresses which it can assign to the new node without consulting any other address agents in the network. The proposed protocol is robust and efficient. It also has the ability to handle node failures and message losses.

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