Duplicate address detection and autoconfiguration in OLSR

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are infrastructure-free, highly dynamic wireless networks, where central administration or configuration by the user is very difficult. One of the MANET protocols which have been recently promoted to experimental RFC is the OLSR routing protocol (Jacquet et al., 2003; Jacquet et al., 2001), on which this article focuses. This article aims at complementing the OLSR routing protocol specifications to handle autoconfiguration. The corner stone of this autoconfiguration protocol is an advanced duplicate address detection algorithm.