John Paul O Grady, Dirk Pesch, Aidan McDonald

Influence of Network Merger on Address Assignment Strategies for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

For a mobile device to utilize routing to communicate with other nodes within an ad hoc network, it requires an address, which uniquely identifies the node within the network. A number of approaches have been proposed for the dynamic assignment of unique addresses within an ad hoc network. This paper presents a classification and a cumulative analysis of a number of these approaches through various simulation scenarios and suggestions are made as to improvement of performance based on the analysis. In particular we analyse how the various approaches tackle the problem of network merger and partitioning.