The impact of host name hashing on name resolution traffic

In disaster scenarios, communication systems usually consist of heterogeneous nodes and damaged infrastructure. Communication is important for rescue teams and victims as well but a serious problem because normal network systems like wired or mobile radio Internet could be unreliable or simply not available. To deal with these problems, much effort has been spent to mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and their specialties. Customarily, nodes in such scenarios have limited resources especially regarding power. To save traffic, it is more efficient to exchange hashed names instead of full names during name resolution. In this paper, we show the impact of host name hashing on address resolution traffic in our name mapping framework based on adaptive routing.