Macromobility support for mobile ad hoc networks using IPv6 and the OLSR routing protocol
Computer Communications
Considerations of connecting MANETs through an airborne network
MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
Virtual hierarchy synthesis for hybrid mobile ad hoc networks
HPCC'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
Mobile Peer-to-Peer data dissemination in wireless ad-hoc networks
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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The Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6)-enabled network architecture has recently attracted much attention. In this paper, we address the issue of connecting mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) to global IPv6 networks, while supporting IPv6 mobility. Specifically, we propose a self-organizing, self-addressing, self-routing IPv6-enabled MANET infrastructure, referred to as IPv6-based MANET. The proposed self-organization addressing protocol automatically organizes nodes into tree architecture and configures their global IPv6 addresses. Novel unicast and multicast routing protocols, based on longest prefix matching and soft state routing cache, are specially designed for the IPv6-based MANET. Mobile IPv6 is also supported such that a mobile node can move from one MANET to another. Moreover, a peer-to-peer (P2P) information sharing system is also designed over the proposed IPv6-based MANET. We have implemented a prototyping system to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the IPv6-based MANET and the P2P information sharing system. Simulations are also conducted to show the efficiency of the proposed routing protocols.