The broadcast storm problem in a mobile ad hoc network
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Weak duplicate address detection in mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Enabling large-scale wireless broadband: the case for TAPs
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Routing in multi-radio, multi-hop wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A Layer-2 Framework for Interconnecting Ad Hoc Networks to Fixed Internet
The Computer Journal
Enhancing DHCP for address autoconfiguration in multi-hop WLANs
ICDCN'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Distributed computing and networking
Fast address configuration for WLAN
PDCAT'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing: applications and Technologies
Mesh networks: commodity multihop ad hoc networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Multihop Ad Hoc Networking: The Theory
IEEE Communications Magazine
PACMAN: passive autoconfiguration for mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
SAAMAN: Scalable Address Autoconfiguration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
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Cluster-Based and Distributed IPv6 Address Configuration Scheme for a MANET
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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The use of ad hoc networking technologies is emerging as a viable and cost-effective solution to extend the range of traditional wireless local area networks (WLANs). In these networks, mobile client traffic reaches the access points through multi-hop wireless paths that are established by using an ad hoc routing protocol. However, several technical challenges have to be faced in order to construct such an extended WLAN. For instance, traditional autoconfiguration protocols commonly used in infrastructure-based WLANs, such as DHCP or Zeroconf, are not directly applicable in multi-hop wireless networks. To address this problem, in this paper we propose extensions to DHCP to enable the dynamic allocation of globally routable IPv4 addresses to mobile stations in hybrid ad hoc networks, which transparently integrate conventional wired technologies with wireless ad hoc networking technologies. Some of the attractive features of our solution are its ability to cope with node mobility, the introduction of negligible protocol overheads, and the use of legacy DHCP servers. We have implemented a prototype of our scheme, and tested its functionalities considering various topology layouts, network loads and mobility conditions. The experimental results show that our solution ensures short address configuration delays and low protocol overheads.