HAIAN: Hash-based autoconfiguration by integrating addressing and naming resolution for mobile Ad Hoc networks

Abstract

Addressing is a basic step for communications among network nodes, and a naming service can help users easily and conveniently use their applications. To the best of our knowledge, addressing is studied regardless of naming service and vice versa. In this paper, we suggest an autoconfiguration scheme that allocates an address using a hash value of node's name. As we bound an address and the name at the joining phase, users use the naming service on their application without an additional name resolution step. Moreover, the total number of messages can be reduced by integrating addressing and naming resolution. © Springer-Verlag 2004.