Research Article
Hierarchical Area-Based Address Autoconfiguration Protocol for Self-organized Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-25067-0_14, author={Mandimby Rakotondravelona and Fanilo Harivelo and Pascal Anelli}, title={Hierarchical Area-Based Address Autoconfiguration Protocol for Self-organized Networks}, proceedings={Ad Hoc Networks. 7th International Conference, AdHocHets 2015, San Remo, Italy, September 1--2, 2015, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={ADHOCNETS}, year={2015}, month={9}, keywords={self-organized ad-hoc wireless distributed protocol address autoconfiguration}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-25067-0_14} }- Mandimby Rakotondravelona
Fanilo Harivelo
Pascal Anelli
Year: 2015
Hierarchical Area-Based Address Autoconfiguration Protocol for Self-organized Networks
ADHOCNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25067-0_14
Abstract
Node autoconfiguration is one of the main issues in self-organized networks. One class of approaches relies on hierarchical organization of nodes. This kind of structuration aims to deal with scalability issues, especially for wireless networks. But building and maintaining a hierarchy is generally expensive for these resource-limited networks. We propose a low-cost distributed, hierarchical, location-based address autoconfiguration protocol. Each node infers its address from those of its one-hop neighbors and from its relative position to them. In this way we obtain a globally-consistent organization resulting from local interactions only. This reduces the latency and the overhead generated during address configuration. Moreover this scheme is the first step towards the design of a scalable routing protocol taking advantages of the proposed hierarchical addressing.