Communications networks for the force XXI digitized battlefield
Mobile Networks and Applications
Making link-state routing scale for ad hoc networks
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Simulation of large scale networks II: large-scale network simulations with GTNetS
Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation
A wireless interface type for OSPF
MILCOM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE conference on Military communications - Volume II
Weather Disruption-Tolerant Self-Optimising Millimeter Mesh Networks
IWSOS '08 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
Link-state routing without broadcast storming for multichannel mesh networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Survivable millimeter-wave mesh networks
Computer Communications
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The Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol performs inefficiently when operated over certain types of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), such as those formed by using IEEE 802.11 ad hoc radios. In 2003, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) OSPF working group solicited proposals to extend OSPFv3 for IPv6 to operate efficiently in MANET environments. During design team consideration, two proposals were developed and discussed: Overlapping Relays with Smart Peering (OR/SP) and MANET Designated Routers (MDRs). The two proposals both reduce OSPF overhead using similar ideas, but there are a few key differences. In this paper, we compare the design and operation of these two proposals, and use a simulation-based study to isolate several performance characteristics. Using the results of this comparison, we explain why we consider MDRs to be more suitable than OR/SP for OSPF in MANET environments.