Name: draft-ietf-manet-dsr-10
Title: The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (DSR)
State: Pending
Authors: Dave Johnson
Group: Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (manet)
Date: 2004-07-22
The Dynamic Source Routing protocol (DSR) is a simple and efficient routing
protocol designed specifically for use in multi-hop wireless ad hoc
networks of mobile nodes. DSR allows the network to be completely
self-organizing and self-configuring, without the need for any existing
network infrastructure or administration. The protocol is composed of the
two main mechanisms of 'Route Discovery' and 'Route Maintenance', which
work together to allow nodes to discover and maintain routes to arbitrary
destinations in the ad hoc network. All aspects of the protocol operate
entirely on-demand, allowing the routing packet overhead of DSR to scale
automatically to only that needed to react to changes in the routes
currently in use. The protocol allows multiple routes to any destination
and allows each sender to select and control the routes used in routing its
packets, for example for use in load balancing or for increased robustness.
Other advantages of the DSR protocol include easily guaranteed loop-free
routing, operation in networks containing unidirectional links, use of only
change. The DSR protocol is designed mainly for mobile ad hoc networks of
up to about two hundred nodes, and is designed to work well with even very
high rates of mobility. This document specifies the operation of the DSR
protocol for routing unicast IPv4 packets.
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