"Dynamic MANET On-demand (DYMO) Routing", Ian Chakeres, Charles Perkins, 9-Apr-08. ( bytes)

The Dynamic MANET On-demand (DYMO) routing protocol is intended for use by mobile nodes in wireless, multihop networks. DYMO determines unicast routes among DYMO routers within the network in an on-demand fashion, offering improved convergence in dynamic topologies.

"Simplified Multicast Forwarding for MANET", Joseph Macker, SMF Team, 25-Feb-08. ( bytes)

This document describes a Simplified Multicast Forwarding (SMF) mechanism that provides basic IP multicast forwarding suitable for wireless mesh and mobile ad hoc network (MANET) use. SMF specifies techniques for multicast duplicate packet detection (DPD) to assist the forwarding process. SMF also specifies DPD maintenance and checking operations for with both IPv4 and IPv6. SMF takes advantage of reduced relay sets for efficient MANET multicast data distribution within a mesh topology. The document describes interactions with other protocols and multiple deployment approaches. Algorithms for selecting reduced relay sets and related discussion are provided in the Appendices. Basic issues relating to the operation of multicast MANET border routers are discussed but ongoing work remains in this area beyond the scope of this document.

"The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2", Thomas Clausen, Christopher Dearlove, Philippe Jacquet, 25-Feb-08. ( bytes)

This document describes version 2 of the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSRv2) protocol for mobile ad hoc networks. The protocol embodies an optimization of the classical link state algorithm tailored to the requirements of a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). The key optimization of OLSRv2 is that of multipoint relays, providing an efficient mechanism for network-wide broadcast of link state information (i.e. reducing the cost of performing a network- wide link state broadcast). A secondary optimization is that OLSRv2 employs partial link state information: each node maintains information about all destinations, but only a subset of links. Consequently, only selected nodes diffuse link state advertisements (thus reducing the number of network-wide link state broadcasts) and these advertisements contain only a subset of links (thus reducing the size of network-wide link state broadcasts). The partial link state information thus obtained still allows each OLSRv2 node to at all times maintain optimal (in terms of number of hops) routes to all destinations in the network. OLSRv2 imposes minimum requirements on the network by not requiring sequenced or reliable transmission of control traffic. Furthermore, the only interaction between OLSRv2 and the IP stack is routing table management. OLSRv2 is particularly suitable for large and dense networks as the technique of MPRs works well in this context.

"Generalized MANET Packet/Message Format", Thomas Clausen, Christopher Dearlove, Justin Dean, Cedric Adjih, 10-Mar-08. ( bytes)

This document specifies a packet format capable of carrying multiple messages that may be used by mobile ad hoc network routing and signaling protocols.

"MANET Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP)", Thomas Clausen, Christopher Dearlove, Justin Dean, 10-Mar-08. ( bytes)

This document describes a 1-hop and symmetric 2-hop neighborhood discovery protocol (NHDP) for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs).

"IANA Allocations for MANET Protocols", Ian Chakeres, 18-Nov-07. ( bytes)

This document enumerates several common IANA allocations for use by MANET protocols. The following well-known numbers are required: a UDP port number, an IP protocol number, and a link-local multicast group address.

"Representing multi-value time in MANETs", Thomas Clausen, Christopher Dearlove, 19-Nov-07. ( bytes)

This document describes a general and flexible TLV (type-length-value structure) for representing time using the generalized MANET packet/ message format. It defines two message and two address block TLVs for representing validity and interval times for MANET routing protocols.

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