Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Internet Connectivity for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks

  • Published:
International Journal of Wireless Information Networks Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The growing deployment rate of wireless LANs indicates that wireless networking is rapidly becoming a prevalent form of communication. As users become more accustomed to the use of mobile devices, they increasingly want the additional benefit of roaming. The Mobile IP protocol has been developed as a solution for allowing users to roam outside of their home networks while still retaining network connectivity. The problem with this solution, however, is that the deployment of foreign agents is expensive because their coverage areas are limited due to fading and interference. To reduce the number of foreign agents needed while still maintaining the same coverage, ad hoc network functionality can cooperate with Mobile IP such that multihop routes between mobile nodes and foreign agents can be utilized. In this work, we present a method for enabling the cooperation of Mobile IP and the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol, such that mobile nodes that are not within direct transmission range of a foreign agent can still obtain Internet connectivity. In addition, we describe how duplicate address detection can be used in these networks to obtain a unique co-located care-of address when a foreign agent is not available.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

REFERENCES

  1. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) IP Routing for Wireless/ Mobile Hosts (MobileIP) Working Group Charter, http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mobileip-charter.html

  2. J. Broch, D. Maltz, and D. Johnson, Supporting Hierarchy and Heterogeneous Interfaces in Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN'99), pp. 370–375, Perth, Australia, June 1999.

  3. J. Broch, D. A. Maltz, D. B. Johnson, Y.-C. Hu, and J. Jetcheva, A Performance Comparison of Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols, Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCOM'98), pp. 85–97, October 1998.

  4. K. Fall and K. Varadhan, ns Manual. The VINT Project. http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/

  5. D. B. Johnson and D. A. Maltz, Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. In T. Imielinski and H. Korth (eds.) Mobile Computing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 153–181, 1996.

  6. U. Jonsson, F. Alriksson, T. Larsson, P. Johansson, and G. Q. Maguire, Jr., MIPMANET-Mobile IP for Mobile Ad Hoc networks, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Mobile Ad hoc Network and Computing (MobiHOC'00), pp. 75–85, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2000.

  7. H. Lei and C. E. Perkins, Ad Hoc networking with Mobile IP, Proceedings of the 2nd European Personal Mobile Communications Conference, pp. 197–202, Oct. 1997.

  8. C. Perkins, IP mobility support, Request for Comments (Proposed Standard) 2002, Internet Engineering Task Force, Oct. 1996.

  9. C. E. Perkins, Mobile IP, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 84–99, May 1997.

    Google Scholar 

  10. C. E. Perkins, IP mobility support for IPV4, revised, IETF Internet Draft, draft-ietf-mobileip-rfc2002-bis-08.txt, September 2001.

  11. C. E. Perkins, E. M. Belding-Royer, and S. Das, Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing, IETF Internet Draft, draft-ietf-manet-aodv-09.txt, November 2001. (Work in Progress).

  12. C. E. Perkins, J. T. Malinen, R. Wakikawa, E. M. Belding-Royer, and Y. Sun, Ad hoc Address Autoconfiguration, IETF Internet Draft, draft-ietf-manet-autoconf-01.txt, November 2001. (Work in Progress).

  13. C. E. Perkins and E. M. Royer, Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, pp. 90–100, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 1999.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 93106

    Yuan Sun & Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer

  2. Communications System Laboratory, Nokia Research Center

    Charles E. Perkins

Authors
  1. Yuan Sun
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Charles E. Perkins
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Sun, Y., Belding-Royer, E.M. & Perkins, C.E. Internet Connectivity for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks 9, 75–88 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015399632291

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015399632291

Search

Navigation