Abstract
Due to long latency and considerable packet loss, stateful and stateless address configuration standards cannot efficiently work in vehicular networks, so this paper proposes an IPv6 address configuration scheme for vehicular networks based on location information. This scheme combines a stateless address configuration mechanism with a stateful one. In the stateless algorithm, duplicate address detection is performed within a road domain instead of a network. A random ID is introduced to reduce the address conflict rate, so the address configuration cost and delay are reduced. In the stateful algorithm, a vehicle acquires a unique address from a neighbor vehicle without recording the address allocation states, so the address configuration task is distributed around all vehicles and the distributed address configuration is achieved. This paper evaluates the performance of this scheme, and the data results show that this scheme reduces the addressing costs and delays.





























Similar content being viewed by others
References
IEEE Standard Committee: IEEE Standard for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE)-Networking Services. IEEE Std, 1609-3 (2010)
Gerla, M., Kleinrock, L.: Vehicular networks and the future of the mobile internet. Comput. Netw. 55(2), 457–469 (2011)
Gramaglia, M., Bernardos, C.J., Soto, I., Calderon, M., Baldessari, R.: IPv6 address autoconfiguration in geonetworking-enabled VANETs: characterization and evaluation of the ETSI solution. EURASIP J. Wirel. Commun. Netw. 2012(1), 1–17 (2012)
Chen, Y.S., Hsu, C.S., Yi, W.H.: An IP passing protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks with network fragmentation. Comput. Math Appl. 63(2), 407–426 (2012)
Droms, R., Bound, J., Volz, B., Lemon, T., Perkins, C., Carney, M.: Dynamic host configuration protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6). RFC 3315 (2003)
Narten, T., Thomson, S., Jinmei, T.: IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration. (2007)
Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., Soliman H.: Neighbor discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6). RFC 4861 (2007)
ETSI, TS: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); Vehicular Communications, Part 6: Internet Integration; Sub-Part 1: Transmission of IPv6 Packets Over Geonetworking Protocols. ETSI TS 102 636-6 (2011)
ETSI, TS: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); Vehicular Communications, Part 3: Network Architecture. ETSI TS 102 636-3 (2010)
Thoppian, M.R., Prakash, R.: A distributed protocol for dynamic address assignment in mobile ad hoc networks. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 5(1), 4–19 (2006)
Gammar, S.M., Amine, E., Kamoun, F.: Distributed address auto configuration protocol for Manet networks. Telecommun. Syst. 44(1–2), 39–48 (2010)
Al-Mistarihi, M.F., Al-Shurman, M., Qudaimat, A.: Tree based dynamic address autoconfiguration in mobile ad hoc networks. Comput. Netw. 55(8), 1894–1908 (2011)
Wang, X., Qian, H.: Hierarchical and low-power IPv6 address configuration for wireless sensor networks. Int. J. Commun. Syst. 25(12), 1513–1529 (2012)
Talipov, E., Shin, H., Han, S., Cha, H.: A lightweight stateful address autoconfiguration for 6LoWPAN. Wirel. Netw. 17(1), 183–197 (2011)
Hussain, S.R., Saha, S., Rahman, A.: SAAMAN: scalable address autoconfiguration in mobile ad hoc networks. J. Netw. Syst. Manag. 19(3), 394–426 (2011)
Xiaonan, W., Shan, Z.: An IPv6 address configuration scheme for wireless sensor networks based on location information. Telecommun. Syst. 52(1), 151–160 (2013)
Zhu, K., Niyato, D., Wang, P., Hossain, E., In Kim, D.: Mobility and handoff management in vehicular networks: a survey. Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput. 11(4), 459–476 (2011)
Fazio, M., Palazzi, C.E., Das, S., Gerla, M.: Automatic IP address configuration in VANETs. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, pp. 100–101. ACM (2006)
Wang, X., Zhong, S.: Research on IPv6 address configuration for a VANET. J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. 73(6), 757–766 (2013)
Mohandas, B.K., Liscano, R.: IP address configuration in VANET using centralized DHCP. In 33rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, 2008. LCN 2008 (pp. 608–613). IEEE (2008)
Chao, S.J., Zhang, J.M., Tuan, C.C.: Hierarchical IP distribution mechanism for VANET. In Second International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2010, pp. 349–354. IEEE (2010)
Chen, Y.S., Hsu, C.S., Cheng, C.H.: Network mobility protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks. Int. J. Commun. Syst. 27(11), 3042–3063 (2013)
Hinden, R.M., Deering, S.E.: Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) addressing architecture. (2003)
DSRC Committee: DRAFT SAE J2735 Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) Message Set Dictionary. Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale (2007)
Zhao, W., Xie, J.: IMeX: intergateway cross-layer handoffs in internet-based infrastructure wireless mesh networks. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 11(10), 1585–1600 (2012)
Benamar, N., Singh, K.D., Benamar, M., El Ouadghiri, D., Bonnin, J.M.: Routing protocols in vehicular delay tolerant networks: a comprehensive survey. Comput. Commun. 48, 141–158 (2014)
IEEE 802.11 Working Group: IEEE standard for information technology–telecommunications and information exchange between systems-local and metropolitan area networks-specific requirements—Part 11: wireless LAN medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications amendment 6: wireless access in vehicular environments. IEEE Std 802, 11 (2010)
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by Jiangsu Nature Science Foundation (BK20141230) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (61202440).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Wang, X., Le, D. & Cheng, H. Location-Based IPv6 Address Configuration for Vehicular Networks. J Netw Syst Manage 24, 257–284 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-015-9350-z
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-015-9350-z