Sinead Cummins, J.P. O'Grady & Fergus O'Reilly

Managing Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, IP Addressing and Service Delivery

Adaptive Wireless Systems Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
Cork Institute of Technology

Service delivery over wireless ad-hoc networks requires, firstly the wireless creation of the ad-hoc networks, and then on these networks the ad-hoc discovery and delivery of services over this temporary infrastructure. On the creation of a wireless network, individual nodes must be identified or addressed correctly, cogniscent of the challenges posed by the ad-hoc nature of the communication. Secondly, services provided may then be provided and used only on a temporary and ad-hoc basis as well, requiring that systems for service discovery and delivery must also be suitable for operating in this environment. This paper examines approaches to Wireless Ad-hoc Address Allocation based on the IP Protocol and from this approaches for Ad-hoc Wireless Service Delivery based on the Jini/Java programming / communication model. Together these can be combined to provide for IP based wireless Service Delivery for Ad-hoc networks.