TLDV: Tree-Like Locator Distance Vector routing protocol for MANETs

Most routing protocols in MANETs don´t scale well in networks with large numbers of nodes where the scalability of the routing protocols plays a vital role. And it is well known that these routing protocols usually use node locator (e.g. IP address) as pure identifier. In this paper, we propose a scalable Tree-Like Locator Distance Vector routing protocol for MANETs, which is inspired by DART. This protocol splits node´s ID and locator in network layer. Each node has one unique permanent ID and a temporary dynamic 2^b-ary tree locator. Node´s locator describes the node´s relative position in the network´s topology, and should change whenever the topology changes.