Proposed method of automatic IP addresses calculation and allocation

In large communication networks, in order to minimize the possibility of error prone human configuration, it is useful to have unique identified network elements (nodes) that are as much as possible auto configurable. This paper proposes one possible approach for nodes to generate their own addresses (for each interface) based on information relevant to the node (e.g. linked to the node´s unique hardware). In order to ensure that generated addresses are unique, an identifier specific to the node and recognized by the node is used as the basis for generating the node´s addresses.