%0 Journal Article
%A García Villalba, Luis Javier
%A García Matesanz, Julián
%A Sandoval Orozco, Ana Lucila
%A Márquez Díaz, José Duván
%T Auto-Configuration Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
%D 2011
%@ 1424-8220
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42184
%X The TCP/IP protocol allows the different nodes in a network to communicate by associating a different IP address to each node. In wired or wireless networks with infrastructure, we have a server or node acting as such which correctly assigns IP addresses, but in mobile ad hoc networks there is no such centralized entity capable of carrying out this function. Therefore, a protocol is needed to perform the network configuration automatically and in a dynamic way, which will use all nodes in the network (or part thereof) as if they were servers that manage IP addresses. This article reviews the major proposed auto-configuration protocols for mobile ad hoc networks, with particular emphasis on one of the most recent: D2HCP. This work also includes a comparison of auto-configuration protocols for mobile ad hoc networks by specifying the most relevant metrics, such as a guarantee of uniqueness, overhead, latency, dependency on the routing protocol and uniformity.
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