[OLSR-users] Announcement: Implementation of PACMAN: Passive Autoconfiguration for MANETs

[Kilian Weniger]

Hi all,

we would like to announce the first public release of an implementation
of "Passive Autoconfiguration for MANETs (PACMAN)" for Linux.
PACMAN is is an efficient and robust distributed solution for address
autoconfiguration in MANETs (see "K. Weniger: PACMAN: Passive
Autoconfiguration for Mobile Ad hoc Networks, to appear in IEEE JSAC,
March 2005"). The implementation was also used for a demo at ACM Mobicom
2004 (olsr.org OLSR daemon was used for routing).

PACMAN heavily uses cross-layer information from ongoing routing protocol
traffic: The address allocation table as well as the Duplicate Address
Detection (DAD) are performed in a passive manner and therefore generate
almost no additional communication overhead. The Passive DAD (PDAD) is
able to detect address conflicts (occurring e.g. after network mergers)
based on anomalies in the routing protocol traffic. Different routing
protocols are supported by PACMAN (support for OLSR and FSR is implemented).
However, a modification of the message format or the implementation of the
routing protocol is not necessary. Thus, existing routing protocol
implementation as, e.g., the UniK OLSR implementation, can be used.

The source code is available for download at

  http://pacman-autoconf.sourceforge.net

Related publications, links and some tools for tests and demonstrations can
be found there as well.

The implementation as well as the concept work was done by members of the
Institute of Telematics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, within the
project IPonAir.


Regards,

Kilian Weniger


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Dr.-Ing. Kilian Weniger 
Institute of Telematics, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH)
Zirkel 2, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone: +49 721 608 6415, Fax: +49 721 388097
Email: (spam-protected), HP: http://www.tm.uka.de/~weniger


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