Design and Evaluation of Address Allocation Algorithm in MANET

As MANET routing protocol was recently standardized, IP address allocation has attracted significant interest in many studies. However, most of MANET address allocation algorithm focus on the study of DAD technique. So, some key challenges still remain such as latency in address allocation and inefficient space utilization. In order to solve these problems, we suggests in this paper Sequence Address Range Mechanism (SARM), which enhances the degree of address utilization by sequentially recovering addresses and solves the problem of address duplication by applying DCDP for address allocation. Also, we prove that SARM is better than the existing address auto configuration algorithm in terms of address allocation time, communication overhead and IP address utilization, through numerical analysis