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E-D2HCP: enhanced distributed dynamic host configuration protocol

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Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) consist of mobile nodes equipped with wireless devices. They do not need any kind of pre-existent infrastructure and are about self-managed networks. MANETs enable communication between mobile nodes without direct links and across multihop paths. To ensure correct operation of the routing protocols, MANETs, have to assign unique IP addresses to the MANET devices. Furthermore, the address assignment is an important issue when dealing with MANET networks because the traditional approaches are not applicable without some changes, having to provide new protocols for the address auto-configuration. These schemes must take into account the properties of MANETs such as dynamic topology, limited resources or lack of infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a stateful scheme for dynamic allocation of IP addresses in MANETs entitled Extended Distributed Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol because it is based on a previous piece of work (D2CHP). This extension includes the network merging not covered by its predecessor. Simulation results show that the new protocol also improves D2HCP functionality in areas such as fault tolerance, concurrency and latency.

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This work was supported by the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID, Spain) through Acción Integrada MAEC-AECID MEDITERRÁNEO A1/037528/11. This work was also supported by the Security Engineering Research Center, granted by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE, Korea).

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  1. Group of Analysis, Security and Systems (GASS), Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (DISIA), School of Computer Science, Office 431, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Calle Profesor José García Santesmases s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 , Madrid, Spain

    L. J. García Villalba & A. L. Sandoval Orozco

  2. Group of Analysis, Security and Systems (GASS), Departmental Section of Computer Systems and Computing, Faculty of Mathematics, Despacho 310-F, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Plaza de Ciencias, 3, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 , Madrid, Spain

    J. García Matesanz

  3. Department of Multimedia Engineering, Hannam University, 133 Ojeong-dong, Daedeok-gu, Daejeon, Korea

    T.-H. Kim

  4. Department of Information Technologies, Global Vision School Australia (GVSA), 20 Virgina Court, Sandy Bay, TAS, Australia

    T.-H. Kim

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García Villalba, L.J., Sandoval Orozco, A.L., Matesanz, J.G. et al. E-D2HCP: enhanced distributed dynamic host configuration protocol. Computing 96, 777–791 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-013-0307-3

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