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Hello,
Happy New Year to all.
 
Is there any clustering algorithm (available for downloading) for simulation
of ad hoc networks with NS or Glomosim.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Shivanajay
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Folks,

First off, welcome back from the holidays for those who took time off.

The issue I'm raising was discussed at the SLC meeting and I want to raise
it on the list.  

We are in the process of milestone revamping in the WG charter, and are
looking to clarify the current scope of work.

As mentioned at the meeting, a number of proposals seem best suited for
highly scaled manet networks. The chairs suggest that the manet WG scope
down the areas of near term work until reasonable progress is achieved. The
rough idea is to concentrate on several items for near term work and
progress.

(1) reactive unicast protocol
(2) proactive unicast protocol
(3) flooding protocol work

----------------
The concerns regarding a number of the proposal(s) are:

(1) primarily useful for scaling manets ..longer term scope issue
(2) perceived lack of broad interest .. independent of WG scope

Would anyone interested in *implementing* TORA, ZRP-related drafts and/or
LANMAR please let me know?  And I do not mean simulation.  I would prefer
that you respond to the list.  I do not want to hear from document authors
or parties working directly with authors.  

I am trying to gauge interest in these drafts as WG work items. 

Thanks,

-Scott


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Scott,

> Would anyone interested in *implementing* TORA, ZRP-related drafts and/or
> LANMAR please let me know?

We believe clustering/hierarchical routing is an important component of
MANET activities to achieve scalability. SRI is interested in integrating
a hierarchical routing protocol such as LANMAR with TBRPF. If LANMAR software 
does not become available in the near term, SRI will be interested in 
implementing it subject to availability of resources.

Fred Templin
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Scott,

I think the addressing / Internet connectivity should remain a part
of the charter. If folks want to use Manets for practical networking,
these would be needed. Also, technically these are more minor
problems than the actual routing algorithms and discussed in papers
already years ago.

Hence, I second having addressing as one item for the short term.

> We are in the process of milestone revamping in the WG charter, and are
> looking to clarify the current scope of work.
> 
> As mentioned at the meeting, a number of proposals seem best suited for
> highly scaled manet networks. The chairs suggest that the manet WG scope
> down the areas of near term work until reasonable progress is achieved. The
> rough idea is to concentrate on several items for near term work and
> progress.
> 
> (1) reactive unicast protocol
> (2) proactive unicast protocol
> (3) flooding protocol work
> 
> ----------------
> The concerns regarding a number of the proposal(s) are:
> 
> (1) primarily useful for scaling manets ..longer term scope issue
> (2) perceived lack of broad interest .. independent of WG scope

> Thanks,
> 
> -Scott

BR,

-Jari


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I am relatively new to the Manet list, although I have been pretty much 
aware of the work and the issues. I am now reading through the DSR and AODV 
drafts.

One thing that doesn't make much sense to me in either one, and especially 
in AODV, is that they focus on routing to addresses, rather than to CIDR 
prefixes. I understand that sensors will often literally use isolated 
addresses as "router identifiers", but it seems that in many cases one 
would like the option of talking about a set of addresses which will move 
together - the addressable components of a vehicle, a set of PCs that live 
at a command post, and so on. Since an IPv4 address is trivially a prefix 
with a length of 32 bits, it seems odd to me to not include a prefix length 
in the routes as distributed, allowing the option of route aggregation and 
the use of LANs.

Can someone explain why this is not a feature of the protocol?



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Hello Fred,

You wrote:

> One thing that doesn't make much sense to me in either one, and especially
> in AODV, is that they focus on routing to addresses, rather than to CIDR
> prefixes.

A lot of ad hoc networks are going to be built from nodes other
than sensors, although I agree that sensor networks are likely
to be an important kind of ad hoc network.  AODV in particular does
allow routing to a CIDR prefix.  The reason that individual node
addresses are usually under consideration, is that this gives the
maximum amount of flexibility for movement.  A route for a CIDR
prefix might be valid only under the assumption that all the nodes
with the same prefix move together.  There have been solutions that
incorporate a sort of "home agent" reachable by way of the CIDR-prefix
route.  I'm not sure how to characterize the advantages of such a
system over one that requires all nodes with the same prefix to be
located together.

>         I understand that sensors will often literally use isolated
> addresses as "router identifiers", but it seems that in many cases one
> would like the option of talking about a set of addresses which will move
> together - the addressable components of a vehicle, a set of PCs that live
> at a command post, and so on. Since an IPv4 address is trivially a prefix
> with a length of 32 bits, it seems odd to me to not include a prefix length
> in the routes as distributed, allowing the option of route aggregation and
> the use of LANs.

AODV can do this.

Regards,
Charlie P.


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Folks,

Another topic broached at the last meeting was the sometimes confusing topic
of Manet Flooding.

Nearly every manet protocol uses some form of flooding to disseminate
control information.  That is NOT what I am talking about.

A "Manet Flooding" protocol is a protocol that can be used to disseminate
*data* traffic throughout a manet domain.  It may subsequently be used by
other protocols for their own internal purposes, but that is a separate
matter.

We (the chairs) are suggesting that this is a fundamental protocol
capability useful for the operation of manets, and are looking for WG
feedback.  We feel such a capability can be used by applications as well as
other protocols.

So I would like to begin discussion of what exactly it means (technically)
to flood information throughout a manet domain.  We have had some discussion
on this subject already on the list.  This discussion could hopefully lead
to the publishing of a manet flooding requirements document that specifies
this capability, co-authored by a small team of interested folks.
Subsequently this flooding capability could be supported by/incorporated
into existing protocols, or specific flooding protocol proposals could be
considered.

Thoughts?

-Scott


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Fred/All:

It has also never been clear to me why prefix advertisement mechanisms should be precluded.  While in certain cases manet nodes may be isolated single hosts with single addresses (sometimes i feel people get stuck on this particular application), protocols should be capable of supporting prefix advertisements when and where appropriate (In most cases its reasonably trivial to add the functionality).

OLSR IDv5, for one, discusses a capability to advertise associated networks and interfaces allowing one to advertise and build appropriate distributed routes for manet with attached fixed networks.  Its definitely limiting not to support such a capability when you really start going operational.  We have already been experimentally using this capability around our laboratory environment to support advertisement of fixed networks attached to an operational manet node.

-Joe

At 08:39 AM 1/7/2002 -0800, Fred Baker wrote:
>I am relatively new to the Manet list, although I have been pretty much aware of the work and the issues. I am now reading through the DSR and AODV drafts.
>
>One thing that doesn't make much sense to me in either one, and especially in AODV, is that they focus on routing to addresses, rather than to CIDR prefixes. I understand that sensors will often literally use isolated addresses as "router identifiers", but it seems that in many cases one would like the option of talking about a set of addresses which will move together - the addressable components of a vehicle, a set of PCs that live at a command post, and so on. Since an IPv4 address is trivially a prefix with a length of 32 bits, it seems odd to me to not include a prefix length in the routes as distributed, allowing the option of route aggregation and the use of LANs.
>
>Can someone explain why this is not a feature of the protocol?




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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Baker" <fred@cisco.com>
> at a command post, and so on. Since an IPv4 address is trivially a prefix
> with a length of 32 bits, it seems odd to me to not include a prefix
length

Trivial extensions to IPv4 and the recognition of UDP and TCP as the
workhorse services, extends the 32 bits with....
QoS +4
RIFRAF +4
Port +16
....these 24 additional bits come to light when DNS AAAA records are used
with IPv4.


http://www.dot-biz.com/INFO/Papers/

Jim Fleming
2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB
http://www.IPv8.info





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OK, I found the word "prefix" in the draft. I was waiting for draft 10 to 
read it thoroughly, so I missed that. The question came up first in DSR 
(which I just finished reading), which mentions prefixes without definition 
and only once.



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At 02:38 PM 1/7/2002, Scott Corson wrote:
>A "Manet Flooding" protocol is a protocol that can be used to disseminate
>*data* traffic throughout a manet domain.  It may subsequently be used by
>other protocols for their own internal purposes, but that is a separate
>matter.

dumb question: is this significantly different from some form of IP 
Multicast, either reliable or unreliable?



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 dumber question.  Reverse path forwarding is the RFC-authorized (forget
which at the moment) method for distributing a directed broadcast.  This
relies on a unicast routing protocol that has determined "best" paths, is
simple, yet significantly more efficient than flooding.  Why doesn't it
apply? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Fred Baker [SMTP:fred@cisco.com]
> Sent:	Monday, January 07, 2002 4:18 PM
> To:	Scott Corson
> Cc:	Manet (E-mail)
> Subject:	Re: Manet Flooding
> 
> At 02:38 PM 1/7/2002, Scott Corson wrote:
> >A "Manet Flooding" protocol is a protocol that can be used to disseminate
> >*data* traffic throughout a manet domain.  It may subsequently be used by
> >other protocols for their own internal purposes, but that is a separate
> >matter.
> 
> dumb question: is this significantly different from some form of IP 
> Multicast, either reliable or unreliable?


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At 09:46 PM 1/7/2002, Nast, Douglas P wrote:
>  dumber question.  Reverse path forwarding is the RFC-authorized (forget
>which at the moment) method for distributing a directed broadcast.  This
>relies on a unicast routing protocol that has determined "best" paths, is
>simple, yet significantly more efficient than flooding.  Why doesn't it
>apply?

because it doesn't work very well. The RFC you're mentioning is RFC 1812, 
and as of that date the IETF believed what it says. But there are some 
serious looping and multiple delivery issues in the algorithms, which don't 
happen in IP Multicast.



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>  dumber question.  Reverse path forwarding is the RFC-authorized (forget
> which at the moment) method for distributing a directed broadcast.  This
> relies on a unicast routing protocol that has determined "best" paths, is
> simple, yet significantly more efficient than flooding.  Why doesn't it
> apply? 

Douglas,

Reverse-path forwarding (RPF) is simply the concept of forwarding 
data packets in the reverse direction along the paths computed 
by a unicast routing algorithm, i.e., a packet with source u that is 
received by node i from the next hop (parent) on the path to u is
forwarded to the neighbors that selected node i as parent for u
(these neighbors are called children).  RPF is most useful
for proactive routing protocols.

RPF can be used in many ways. It is the basis for RPB (Reverse 
Path Broadcast) and TRPB (Truncated RPB), which was combined with 
RIP to create DVMRP (Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol).

IP multicast routing protocols (e.g., DVMRP and PIM) are not
appropriate for MANET networks because they generate too much 
control traffic in highly dynamic networks (there are other
reasons but that is not the focus of this message).
Thus, several new multicast routing protocols (e.g., ODMRP) 
have been developed for MANETs.

The RPF in TBRPF stands for Reverse-Path Forwarding, since
TBRPF uses the parent-child relationship to propagate topology 
updates in the direction opposite to that of data packets. 
Since MANET networks have a broadcast capability, instead of
propagating updates to all children, a TBRPF node propagates 
an update for link (u,v) only if it has at least one child for u
(and only if it results in a change to its source tree), i.e.,
only if the node is a parent (for u) of some neighbor.

My main point is that the parent-child relationship already provided 
by TBRPF can also be used for the efficient broadcast/flooding
of data packets to all nodes in the MANET domain, using reverse-path
forwarding.  In fact, we have designed and implemented a 
*multicast* extension to TBRPF that uses this capability.

It is posible to use RPF with *any* proactive routing protocol
to provide network-wide broadcast, but this would require 
additional overhead since each node would have to send messages
updating its parent selection.  (These were called NEW PARENT 
and CANCEL PARENT messages in previous versions of TBRPF, but
we have eliminated them.)

> simple, yet significantly more efficient than flooding.  Why doesn't it

Regarding terminology, you and I seem to agree that the term
"flooding" refers to the inefficient method in which each packet
is transmitted by every node in the network.  Some MANET folks
use the term to include more efficient methods for network-wide
broadcast, since the term "broadcast" is often used to mean local 
(single-hop) broadcast.  Maybe some discussion is needed on this.

Richard

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Scott,

You can count me as being a little confused as well.  By MANET Flooding are you
referring to the generic process of a node sending a packet to all other nodes
in the network?  Some recent publications have referred to this as network wide
broadcasting.  In my opinion, the term Flooding indicates the specific protocol

in which each node rebroadcasts each originated flooded packet exactly one
time  (Internet Draft - A Simple Protocol for Multicast and Broadcast in Mobile
Ad Hoc Networks, 2001 -  provides the details).

My recent research is in the area of efficient network
wide broadcasting schemes (like Multipoint Relaying used in OLSR).  Generally
speaking, Flooding is overly congestive and wastes node resources.  Recently
proposed efficient network wide broadcast schemes reduce redundant
retransmissions.   It is my opinion that the community should try to
standardize an efficient network wide broadcasting scheme.  To this end, I have
a submission pending regarding a simulation based comparitive analysis of a
number of different network wide broadcasting protocols.   Obviously, our paper
doesn't bear the benefit of the requirements you describe below; we were forced
to make assumptions regarding applicability in order to choose simulation
parameters.  However, you may find those assumptions useful.

I've included the abstract below.  If you or anyone else is interested, I'd be
happy to email a full copy of the paper.

Regards,
Brad Williams
bwilliam@mines.edu

submission abstract -

Network wide broadcasting in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(MANETs) provides important control and route
establishment functionality for a number of unicast
and multicast protocols.  Considering its wide use
as a building block for other network layer protocols,
the MANET community needs to standardize a single
methodology that efficiently delivers a packet from
one node to all other network nodes. Despite a
considerable number of proposed broadcasting schemes,
no comprehensive comparative analysis has been
previously done.  This paper provides such analysis by
classifying existing broadcasting schemes into
categories and simulating a subset of each category,
thus supplying a condensed but comprehensive side by
side comparison.  The simulations are designed to
pinpoint, in each category, specific failures to
network conditions that are relevant to MANETs, e.g.,
bandwidth congestion and dynamic topologies.  Protocol
extensions using adaptive responses to network
conditions are proposed, implemented and analyzed for
one broadcasting scheme that performs well in the
comparative study.  Two protocols utilizing neighbor
knowledge are shown to be most applicable for a wide
range of network conditions.  Areas of future research
are defined to perfect these two protocols, in the
hopes that one will be chosen as a standard
broadcasting scheme by the MANET community.


Scott Corson wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Another topic broached at the last meeting was the sometimes confusing topic
> of Manet Flooding.
>
> Nearly every manet protocol uses some form of flooding to disseminate
> control information.  That is NOT what I am talking about.
>
> A "Manet Flooding" protocol is a protocol that can be used to disseminate
> *data* traffic throughout a manet domain.  It may subsequently be used by
> other protocols for their own internal purposes, but that is a separate
> matter.
>
> We (the chairs) are suggesting that this is a fundamental protocol
> capability useful for the operation of manets, and are looking for WG
> feedback.  We feel such a capability can be used by applications as well as
> other protocols.
>
> So I would like to begin discussion of what exactly it means (technically)
> to flood information throughout a manet domain.  We have had some discussion
> on this subject already on the list.  This discussion could hopefully lead
> to the publishing of a manet flooding requirements document that specifies
> this capability, co-authored by a small team of interested folks.
> Subsequently this flooding capability could be supported by/incorporated
> into existing protocols, or specific flooding protocol proposals could be
> considered.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Scott



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Call for Papers 

An invited session in the 6th World Multi-Conference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics, (SCI 2002) Orlando, Florida, USA, July 14
-18, 2002

Session Title: Modeling, Analysis, Simulation, QoS Issues of Wireless
LANs and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Topics of Interest
	
Wireless LANs & Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (including but not limited to)
* Simulation, modeling and performance evaluation of Wireless LANs,   
  such as IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN, and Ad Hoc Networks.
* Quality-of-service issues in Wireless LANs (IEEE 802.11e, 
  HIPERLAN /2, etc.) and Ad Hoc Networks.
* Power consumption issues
* Higher data rates
* Bluetooth Technology
* 3G/4G-WLAN
* Quality of service in Wireless
* Differentiated Services for Wireless LANs
* Co-existence of IEEE 802.11 and 802.15
* Resource management 
* Routing Protocols
* Quality of Service (QoS) models, Link Performance Models 

Deadlines

Submission of Extended Abstracts: February 05, 2002
Notification of Acceptance: March 05, 2002
Camera Ready Copies:  April 03, 2002

Session Co-Organizers/Co-Chairs

Dr. Yang Xiao, Micro Linear, USA
Dr. Bin Wang, Wright State University, USA

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Submission should be in the form of extended abstracts up to 4 pages
long. All submitted contributions will be subject to peer review on the
basis of technical correctness, quality, relevance, originality,
significance, and presentation clarity.  Abstracts should be in MS
Word, PDF or PS format. Submissions should be sent to the session's
co-organizers. Successful submissions will be asked to submit full
papers. Full papers must be formatted according to IEEE-CS guidelines


Electronic Submission:

Dr. Yang Xiao: YangXiao@IEEE.ORG
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I guess a big part of this discussion comes back to "what do you mean by 
'flood'", which I think paraphrases the original question. To my thinking, 
the fundamental questions come down to "who are you talking to" and "what 
are your requirements for saying things to them."

In routing protocols like OSPF or IS-IS, you are talking to "all routers in 
a domain", and the requirement is that they all maintain consistent routing 
databases, and that any material changes to that routing database be 
propagated in as timely a manner as possible. So it is perfectly acceptable 
to have multiple deliveries of the same information element - if it gets 
lost somewhere, this results in a variety of retransmission.

In a routing protocol like RIP etc, you are talking to "all routers that 
are or should be depending on me for a route". Duplicate deliveries of new 
information are acceptable, and may constitute delivery of information 
("there are multiple paths with the same metric, which might be used for 
load spreading") in their own right.

In a teleconference, you are talking to "all members of the conversation", 
which probably isn't related to the number or location of devices in the 
domain in any sense, and multiple deliveries are somewhere between not 
required and required to not happen due to bandwidth issues.

So I think a key lemma is "what is it that you are talking about flooding?"

There is no "one size" that "fits all" for manet networks, but I think the 
most demanding flooding applications in a manet network are likely to be in 
military applications. I am told that a typical military manet network 
might contain O(10K) components, many of which have internal complexity - a 
vehicle has addressable objects inside of it, for example. Any given node 
has various levels of "membership" and "interest" relationships: a vehicle 
is "interested" in any vehicle it might encounter within the next minute, 
perhaps; as it proceeds down a road, it has a position in an ellipse of 
interest. A person has various command relationships, and an "interest" in 
friendly forces that are located in his or her geographical region (for 
some definition of that term), regardless of type or hierarchy. In such a 
case, I would expect that you want something that looks a lot like 
multicast groups, both of a static and of a dynamic nature.

When you talk about flooding, in that case, it seems like you are trying to 
get messages from yourself to anyone who has a legitimate interest in you, 
whether for command or tactical reasons. Flooding routing information is an 
interesting special case of this sort of thing.

Hence my question about IP Multicast. Note I didn't specifically mention a 
protocol; I think ssm has some specific things to bring to the party here, 
and that's far from done.



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summarizing the response to my earlier comment, repeated below:

"dumber question.  Reverse path forwarding is the RFC-authorize (forget
which at the moment) method for distributing a directed broadcast.  This
relies on a unicast routing protocol that has determined "best" paths, is
simple, yet significantly more efficient than flooding.  Why doesn't it
apply?"

Miguel S. points out that if we are talking about using RPF to distribute
routing data (or maybe solicit it in the case of reactive protocols?) we
have a circular argument, since RFP assumes you have proactively-acquired
routes.   I agree, but Scott was talking about "Manet flooding" to send out
"data", and explicitly NOT routing stuff. 

Fred B. points out that RPF doesn't work well, which I did not know.  (I was
thinking of RFC 922, by the way).  The implication here is that he expects
to scratch Scott's itch using IP multicast. So we need a multicast protocol.
But a bunch of multicast protocols have already been proposed, so if this
were the answer, Scott would presumably not have asked the question.  I
remain confused.  

Richard O. points out that his proactive LSR called TBRPF can easily be
extended to support multicast, and that the underlying mechanism would be
RPF.  I wonder what Fred B. thinks about that?  

I should point out that my interest in RPF comes from the fact that I do NOT
want to integrate a multicast protocol unless forced to, but I DO need to
distribute certain data to everyone in the manet.  RPF seemed like a good
alternative to flooding, since I do have a proactive LSR in hand.  

By way of clarifification, "flooding" to me is sending a packet out on every
interface but the one you received it on.   It generates a lot of duplicates
and wastes a lot of bandwidth.  RPF is appreciably better in theory
(although Fred warns me against it). 

Everybody seems to agree that the answer to the "manet flooding" question is
IP multicast. So the only question is which protocol?

So what's the problem?   

Doug Nast, Boeing






 


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Scott I agree with your suggestion, flooding needs to be 
defined so that various techniques (protocols) can be 
objectively evaluated, measured and compared.  

From a "top-down" view, flooding can be controlled, both in 
terms of direction of progression and duplication of dissemination.  
The opposing tension to flood control is stated as three objectives:
	(1) duplication -- more than one attempt should be made to 
		disseminate data to each node in the flood area 
		(in case the target(s) are busy and not listening 
		during the first attempt)
	(2) obstacle circumvention -- attempts to disseminate 
		data to a node should come from different 
		directions (in case one direction is obstructed)
	(3) coverage maximization -- flood progression should 
		be resilient so that sparsely populated (but 
		connected) regions are still covered

Regards,
Darrell Shane
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Scott Corson [SMTP:Corson@flarion.com]
> Sent:	Monday, January 07, 2002 2:39 PM
> To:	Manet (E-mail)
> Subject:	Manet Flooding
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Another topic broached at the last meeting was the sometimes 
> confusing topic
> of Manet Flooding.
> 
> Nearly every manet protocol uses some form of flooding to disseminate
> control information.  That is NOT what I am talking about.
> 
> A "Manet Flooding" protocol is a protocol that can be used to 
> disseminate
> *data* traffic throughout a manet domain.  It may 
> subsequently be used by
> other protocols for their own internal purposes, but that is 
> a separate
> matter.
> 
> We (the chairs) are suggesting that this is a fundamental protocol
> capability useful for the operation of manets, and are looking for WG
> feedback.  We feel such a capability can be used by 
> applications as well as
> other protocols.
> 
> So I would like to begin discussion of what exactly it means 
> (technically)
> to flood information throughout a manet domain.  We have had 
> some discussion
> on this subject already on the list.  This discussion could 
> hopefully lead
> to the publishing of a manet flooding requirements document 
> that specifies
> this capability, co-authored by a small team of interested folks.
> Subsequently this flooding capability could be supported 
> by/incorporated
> into existing protocols, or specific flooding protocol 
> proposals could be
> considered.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Scott
> 


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Hello Fred,

We have a document (draft-ietf-manet-bcast-02.txt)
that proposes a couple of multicast addresses for
use when flooding data packets.  These multicast
addresses are not supposed to require a multicast
tree to be maintained.  Is this the kind of multicast
transmission that you were thinking of?

It has been pointed out to me that we could use
the IPv6 fragment header instead of the unique
identifier option that we suggested in this draft,
but I have not gotten around to updating the draft
yet with that suggestion.

Regards,
Charlie P.



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> Miguel S. points out that if we are talking about using RPF to distribute
> routing data (or maybe solicit it in the case of reactive protocols?) we
> have a circular argument, since RFP assumes you have proactively-acquired
> routes.  

I have not yet received Miguel's message, but the fact that this
works (for the original version of TBRPF) despite the "circular argument",
or "chicken-egg paradox" as we called it in our paper, is proved in our
INFOCOM'99 paper on TBRPF.  The main idea is that topology information
from nodes 1 hop away can be used to compute paths to nodes 2 hops away,
which in turn provides each node with topology information from nodes
2 hops away (using RPF), which can be used to compute paths to nodes 
3 hops away, etc.

> Fred B. points out that RPF doesn't work well, which I did not know.  (I was
> thinking of RFC 922, by the way).  The implication here is that he expects
> to scratch Scott's itch using IP multicast. So we need a multicast protocol.
> But a bunch of multicast protocols have already been proposed, so if this
> were the answer, Scott would presumably not have asked the question.  I
> remain confused.  

I think the idea is to do network-wide broadcast (called "flooding"
by some) because it is simpler than multicast.  As I mentioned, existing 
IP multicast protocols are not appropriate for highly mobile networks.

> Richard O. points out that his proactive LSR called TBRPF can easily be
> extended to support multicast, and that the underlying mechanism would be
> RPF.  

I also pointed out that RPF can be added to any link-state routing
protocol, although this could add significant overhead.
I would call the underlying mechanism of TBRPF a *variation* of
RPF, since we have eliminated the NEW/CANCEL PARENT messages.
This mechanism could also be added to any link-state routing protocol,
without adding *any* message overhead (since parents select themselves).

Richard

> I should point out that my interest in RPF comes from the fact that I do NOT
> want to integrate a multicast protocol unless forced to, but I DO need to
> distribute certain data to everyone in the manet.  RPF seemed like a good
> alternative to flooding, since I do have a proactive LSR in hand.  
> 
> By way of clarifification, "flooding" to me is sending a packet out on every
> interface but the one you received it on.   It generates a lot of duplicates
> and wastes a lot of bandwidth.  RPF is appreciably better in theory
> (although Fred warns me against it). 

> Everybody seems to agree that the answer to the "manet flooding" question is
> IP multicast. So the only question is which protocol?



> 
> So what's the problem?   
> 
> Doug Nast, Boeing
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  


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At 05:32 PM 1/8/2002, Charlie Perkins wrote:
>These multicast
>addresses are not supposed to require a multicast
>tree to be maintained.  Is this the kind of multicast
>transmission that you were thinking of?

As I tried to say, the issue is the application. If there is no tree 
maintained, you have no assurance that they did or did not get to any given 
receiver, as there is the possibility that a given station moves while the 
multicast is in progress, so that when it comes time for its neighbor to 
deliver the message to it, the station now appears to be on the reverse 
path. If that's OK with the application (the application has some way to 
recover, or loss is expected and normally not recovered from), it's OK with 
me. If it's not OK with the application, we need to think again.

The advantage to maintaining some form of tree is that you're not dependent 
on those particular vagaries. You have other bugs to work around, and with 
any luck you might have a tool to work around them.



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At 02:53 PM 1/8/2002, Nast, Douglas P wrote:
>I should point out that my interest in RPF comes from the fact that I do NOT
>want to integrate a multicast protocol unless forced to, but I DO need to
>distribute certain data to everyone in the manet.

"everyone" in the manet? or "every instance of a certain application that 
has an interest in the information" in the manet?

If it's the TBRPF equivalent of an LSA, fine, I understand what you're 
trying to do, and every system that might forward packets in your routing 
domain needs to know that. If it's "Hi, I'm a soldier, you're a soldier, 
and if I stand up quickly you might be surprised and shoot me, so - I'm 
over here, I'm friendly, and you really don't need to shoot", I doubt that 
every soldier in the country needs to hear that message - or has the 
bandwidth on a low power radio to carry it.



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ogier> > Fred B. points out that RPF doesn't work well, which I did not know.  (I was
ogier> > thinking of RFC 922, by the way).  The implication here is that he expects
ogier> > to scratch Scott's itch using IP multicast. So we need a multicast protocol.
ogier> > But a bunch of multicast protocols have already been proposed, so if this
ogier> > were the answer, Scott would presumably not have asked the question.  I
ogier> > remain confused.  
ogier> 
ogier> I think the idea is to do network-wide broadcast (called "flooding"
ogier> by some) because it is simpler than multicast.  As I mentioned, existing 
ogier> IP multicast protocols are not appropriate for highly mobile networks.

One possible application where where "flooding" techniques have been
considered because of simplicity in a highly mobile network is vehicle
to vehicle communication. The idea is to be continuously transmitting
data about the state of vehicles to "all" vehicles "nearby". The
condition of "nearby" is usually imposed by very low hop count on the data.

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Hello Fred,

Fred Baker wrote:

> At 05:32 PM 1/8/2002, Charlie Perkins wrote:
> >These multicast
> >addresses are not supposed to require a multicast
> >tree to be maintained.  Is this the kind of multicast
> >transmission that you were thinking of?
>
> As I tried to say, the issue is the application.

Yes.  I will presume here that we are discussing applications
that want to deliver some payload to every node in the ad hoc
network (i.e., "flooding" applications).  Then we can still
distinguish between reliable flooding and "best-effort"
flooding.  Our proposal is for the latter.  For reliable flooding
in an ad hoc network, there would be a lot of bookkeeping
and maybe a tree would after all be the right thing, or else
just flood unreliable N times.  I reckon it's a lot harder
problem.

> The advantage to maintaining some form of tree is that you're not dependent
> on those particular vagaries. You have other bugs to work around, and with
> any luck you might have a tool to work around them.

But the disadvantage is that maintaining a tree for a lot of nodes is
quite expensive.  Elizabeth Belding-Royer got some results for multicast
tree maintenance during the process of testing MAODV.  It works O.K.,
but not great.  There needs to be more development.

I think there should be two work items for the manet working group:
1) Unreliable, "best-effort" flooding
2) Multicast.

Using the latter for a multicast tree that contains every node in the
network could _probably_ use the same multicast algorithms as for
multicast trees that just have "lots" of nodes (not all of them).

Regards,
Charlie P.




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Dear ns users:

I'm trying different levels of loading to a 50-node ad hoc network in
1500mx300m area.  Since default ns2 wireless media link capacity is 2Mbps,
the following loading levels results from calculation:

1. Light loading:   20 CBR conneections sending 64-byte packets at 4 packet
per sec
   Loading factor = 20 x 64 x 8 x 4 / 2M = 0.03 erlang = 3%

2. Moderate loading:  30 CBR connections sending 512-byte packets at 8
packet per sec
   Loading factor = 30 x 512 x 8 x 8 / 2M = 0.49 erlang = 49%

3. Heavy loading:  30 CBR connections sending 1024-byte packets at 8 packet
per sec
   Loading factor = 30 x 1024 x 8 x 8 / 2M = 0.98 erlang = 98%

However given moderate loading at above, NO single scenario has ever
complete successful so far!  Not to mention the case of heavy loading.  The
simulation ALWAYS core dump halfway with a "eval.c 41: no such file or
directory" error.  This error did happen with even the light loading case,
but much less frequently and could be bypassed by replacing a new scenario
file. However this method apparently doesn't work with moderate loading and
heavy loading!

Has anyone experienced similar problem or tried to simluate large traffic
before?
All comments are welcome!

Thank you.

wangq



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Perkins" <charliep@iprg.nokia.com>
> 
> Yes.  I will presume here that we are discussing applications
> that want to deliver some payload to every node in the ad hoc
> network (i.e., "flooding" applications).  Then we can still
> distinguish between reliable flooding and "best-effort"
> flooding.  Our proposal is for the latter.  For reliable flooding
> in an ad hoc network, there would be a lot of bookkeeping
> and maybe a tree would after all be the right thing, or else
> just flood unreliable N times.  I reckon it's a lot harder
> problem.
> 

The 6-way ClusterBus of IPv8 and IPv16 keeps things manageable.
Six is a good number because 2 and 3 are commonly used to build
reliable and ultra-reliable systems. Sailors take 3 clocks to sea to
make sure they have a better chance of knowing the time. With 6,
the Any SRC and All Cast features are bounded.

http://www.dot-biz.com/INFO/Papers/

Jim Fleming
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All,
I am looking for opinions on which of these simulation tools is more
effective/better. I realize that each tool has its strengths/weaknesses. I
would like to hear your thoughts on both. To avoid a flame war on the list,
please send your comments directly to me. I would really appreciate your
thoughts.
Cheers,
Ken


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Wang,
  If you're creating output packet trace files to be used analysis tools,
watch their size as the simulation progresses.  In some NS2 simulations
we've run with high packet loads, we've seen the tracefiles grow to 2
gigabytes, which was the maximum file size on the Linux machine we were
using.  You may find that the core dumps occur when the output file reaches
the maximum limit supported by your OS.

Jim

Wang Qiang wrote:
> 
> Dear ns users:
> 
> I'm trying different levels of loading to a 50-node ad hoc network in
> 1500mx300m area.  Since default ns2 wireless media link capacity is 2Mbps,
> the following loading levels results from calculation:
> 
> 1. Light loading:   20 CBR conneections sending 64-byte packets at 4 packet
> per sec
>    Loading factor = 20 x 64 x 8 x 4 / 2M = 0.03 erlang = 3%
> 
> 2. Moderate loading:  30 CBR connections sending 512-byte packets at 8
> packet per sec
>    Loading factor = 30 x 512 x 8 x 8 / 2M = 0.49 erlang = 49%
> 
> 3. Heavy loading:  30 CBR connections sending 1024-byte packets at 8 packet
> per sec
>    Loading factor = 30 x 1024 x 8 x 8 / 2M = 0.98 erlang = 98%
> 
> However given moderate loading at above, NO single scenario has ever
> complete successful so far!  Not to mention the case of heavy loading.  The
> simulation ALWAYS core dump halfway with a "eval.c 41: no such file or
> directory" error.  This error did happen with even the light loading case,
> but much less frequently and could be bypassed by replacing a new scenario
> file. However this method apparently doesn't work with moderate loading and
> heavy loading!
> 
> Has anyone experienced similar problem or tried to simluate large traffic
> before?
> All comments are welcome!
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> wangq

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Please move further discussion the ns2 users list.

I, for one, have performed a number of trails with different protocols using congested levels of  traffic loads, while it certainly slows things down (dependent also on the number of events you are trying to trace)....it worked for me as recently as release 2.1b8.. Again further discussion should be brought to the ns2 mailing list not here.

Thanks,
-Joe

At 10:53 PM 1/9/2002 +0800, Wang Qiang wrote:
>Dear ns users:
>
>I'm trying different levels of loading to a 50-node ad hoc network in
>1500mx300m area.  Since default ns2 wireless media link capacity is 2Mbps,
>the following loading levels results from calculation:
>
>1. Light loading:   20 CBR conneections sending 64-byte packets at 4 packet
>per sec
>   Loading factor = 20 x 64 x 8 x 4 / 2M = 0.03 erlang = 3%
>
>2. Moderate loading:  30 CBR connections sending 512-byte packets at 8
>packet per sec
>   Loading factor = 30 x 512 x 8 x 8 / 2M = 0.49 erlang = 49%
>
>3. Heavy loading:  30 CBR connections sending 1024-byte packets at 8 packet
>per sec
>   Loading factor = 30 x 1024 x 8 x 8 / 2M = 0.98 erlang = 98%
>
>However given moderate loading at above, NO single scenario has ever
>complete successful so far!  Not to mention the case of heavy loading.  The
>simulation ALWAYS core dump halfway with a "eval.c 41: no such file or
>directory" error.  This error did happen with even the light loading case,
>but much less frequently and could be bypassed by replacing a new scenario
>file. However this method apparently doesn't work with moderate loading and
>heavy loading!
>
>Has anyone experienced similar problem or tried to simluate large traffic
>before?
>All comments are welcome!
>
>Thank you.
>
>wangq




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At 01:41 PM 1/8/2002 -0800, Fred Baker wrote:
>I guess a big part of this discussion comes back to "what do you mean by 'flood'", which I think paraphrases the original question. To my thinking, the fundamental questions come down to "who are you talking to" and "what are your requirements for saying things to them."
>
>In routing protocols like OSPF or IS-IS, you are talking to "all routers in a domain", and the requirement is that they all maintain consistent routing databases, and that any material changes to that routing database be propagated in as timely a manner as possible. So it is perfectly acceptable to have multiple deliveries of the same information element - if it gets lost somewhere, this results in a variety of retransmission.
>

Yes, the application of what you mean by flooding is important to consider.  I believe Scott's note was trying to separate the discussion of mechanisms flooding "routing protocol data" from flooding "end user data".  

But back to "routing protocol data/control" flooding, manet unicast protocols have developed interesting and "wireless friendly" ways of flooding routing control for internal routing information. e.g., OLSR's use of Multipoint Relays to build a distributed, source specific flooding tree...hmmm.. (other protocols have their ways as well and I am just using this an example)...so there is not one size fits all as you indicate since different routing protocols may do different things here.  

In the past, authors have come in with ID proposals for manet multicast routing independent or in some cases dependent on a specific unicast routing mechanism (perhaps borrowing off some inherent efficiency mechanism designed into the protocol).  Being a member of the WG that is also interested in multicast, I have been debating whether it would be useful to potentially use efficient control flooding mechanisms (perhaps unique to a protocol) for also flooding application data when appropriate.  (there are both design advantages and disadvantages here).. 

If we eventually get into multi-hop autoconf issues,etc such mechanism(s) would be useful for more than user data as well.  So perhaps a question would be..if we feel something should be supported in this realm how much do we borrow from particular unicast protocol mechanisms already in place? Or do we design mechanisms that are more independent from particular manet unicast routing protocol techniques used for control flooding?

For one, I am fan of multiple approaches once we know what the scenario categories are, but I believe we should have simple and effective approaches available for less scaled manets. I am listening and interested in what others have to say here.

-Joe

>When you talk about flooding, in that case, it seems like you are trying to get messages from yourself to anyone who has a legitimate interest in you, whether for command or tactical reasons. Flooding routing information is an interesting special case of this sort of thing.
>
>Hence my question about IP Multicast. Note I didn't specifically mention a protocol; I think ssm has some specific things to bring to the party here, and that's far from done.




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At 02:53 PM 1/8/2002 -0800, Nast, Douglas P wrote:

>By way of clarifification, "flooding" to me is sending a packet out on every
>interface but the one you received it on.   It generates a lot of duplicates
>and wastes a lot of bandwidth.  RPF is appreciably better in theory
>(although Fred warns me against it). 

Doug, 

I just wanted to correct the flooding definition above which uses the term interface,

For some wireless interfaces, forwarding out the physical interface a packet is received is allowed and expected when flooding and when generally forwarding.  This is because the interface is semi-broadcast in nature (e.g, two neighbors I have logical connections to on the interface don't necessarily connect to each other directly). MPR based flooding and other manet-techniques deal with these characteristics that are different from the typical wired interface.

Also, in some MAC cases (and we should be designing for some heterogeneity here) it is important to verify neighbor bidirectionality. Subtle but important points manet protocol designers address.  Non-wireless connections often assume certain physical characteristics that don't apply necessarily here.  It might be useful to have an informational to better expose some of these basic design issues to the broader Internet community.
 
-Joe


>Everybody seems to agree that the answer to the "manet flooding" question is
>IP multicast. So the only question is which protocol?
>
>So what's the problem?   
>
>Doug Nast, Boeing
>
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Hi all,

kindly cc to me either. I am also interested in knowing which is better.

Thanks,

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Ken Peirce wrote:

> All,
> I am looking for opinions on which of these simulation tools is more
> effective/better. I realize that each tool has its strengths/weaknesses. I
> would like to hear your thoughts on both. To avoid a flame war on the list,
> please send your comments directly to me. I would really appreciate your
> thoughts.
> Cheers,
> Ken
> 

Rajesh

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The LUNAR ad hoc routing system now supports IP broadcast (recently
called MANET flooding on this list), can self-configure node addresses
and perform automatic IP gatewaying. To put it another way: it is a
solution to go, no configuration required when starting LUNAR ad hoc
networking. Furthermore, LUNAR performs very well in web usability
tests, for example when compared to OLSR, although LUNAR is a
on-demand protocol.

What more can we say? Try it out today!

Source code (GPL) for Linux at:
  http://www.docs.uu.se/selnet/lunar/

 
<tschudin@docs.uu.se> Christian Tschudin, Uppsala University
<gold@fokus.fhg.de> Richard Gold, FhG FOKUS, Berlin



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We still are not agreeing on the definition of "flooding", as I explain below.
I hope we can clear this up and come up with a definition that we can agree on.
Internet Drafts are supposed to define their terms, but I have not seen
the term "flooding" actually defined in either of the following drafts:

  draft-ietf-manet-bcast-00.txt 
  draft-ietf-manet-simple-mbcast-01.txt

First I will summarize how some people define "flooding":

Nast, Douglas P wrote:
 
> By way of clarifification, "flooding" to me is sending a packet out on every
> interface but the one you received it on.   It generates a lot of duplicates
> and wastes a lot of bandwidth.  RPF is appreciably better in theory
> (although Fred warns me against it). 

Joe Macker wrote:

> I just wanted to correct the flooding definition above which uses the term interface,
> For some wireless interfaces, forwarding out the physical interface a packet is received 
> is allowed and expected when flooding and when generally forwarding. 

Let's assume for simplicity that every node in the MANET has a single broadcast interface.  
If we correct Doug Nast's definition according to Joe, then each flooded packet 
will be transmitted by every node in the network.

Brad Williams wrote:

> In my opinion, the term Flooding indicates the specific protocol
> in which each node rebroadcasts each originated flooded packet exactly one
> time  (Internet Draft - A Simple Protocol for Multicast and Broadcast in Mobile
> Ad Hoc Networks, 2001 -  provides the details).

OK.  Brad's definition agrees with Doug's definition corrected by Joe.  
This also agrees with the flooding protocol described in draft-ietf-manet-bcast-00.txt.
This is often called "classical flooding".  So far, so good.

However, people are now using the term "flooding" to mean something different.

For example, Charlie Perkins implied that a tree *could* be used for flooding:

> For reliable flooding in an ad hoc network, there would be a lot of bookkeeping
> and maybe a tree would after all be the right thing,...

This would not be the same as "classical flooding", e.g., the leaves of the tree would 
not have to retransmit each packet.

For another example, Joe Macker noted that flooding can be achieved using multipoint 
relays.  Again, this is not "classical flooding", since not all nodes would have to
retransmit each packet.

Charlie Perkins wrote:

> I think there should be two work items for the manet working group:
> 1) Unreliable, "best-effort" flooding
> 2) Multicast.

Frankly, I don't know whether Charlie means "classical flooding" or is allowing
the possibility of a more efficient mechanism for network-wide broadcast.

This confusion can be cleared up by using the term suggested by Brad Williams:
"network-wide broadcast".  To me, "flooding" is one mechanism for achieving 
network-wide broadcast.    

I don't think the working group should dictate the *mechanism* for achieving
network-wide broadcast, so I suggest that the first work item above
be changed to "unreliable, network-wide broadcast".   

Another possility is to define "flooding" to be more than just "classical flooding",
but this seems to confuse some people.

Of course, network-wide broadcast can also be used for multicast if a 
multicast protocol is not available (but would be less efficient).

Richard



> Also, in some MAC cases (and we should be designing for some heterogeneity here) it is important to
 verify neighbor bidirectionality. Subtle but important points manet protocol designers address.  Non
-wireless connections often assume certain physical characteristics that don't apply necessarily here
.  It might be useful to have an informational to better expose some of these basic design issues to 
the broader Internet community.
>  
> -Joe
> 
> 
> >Everybody seems to agree that the answer to the "manet flooding" question is
> >IP multicast. So the only question is which protocol?
> >
> >So what's the problem?   
> >
> >Doug Nast, Boeing
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> 
> 


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Hello Richard,

There is a definition in "draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt", which
was taken from a very old draft submitted for consideration within
the manet working group.  I still think it would be a good idea to
have a terminology draft, and the abovementioned draft would not
be such a bad place to start.


ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:

> However, people are now using the term "flooding" to mean something different.
>
> For example, Charlie Perkins implied that a tree *could* be used for flooding:
>
> > For reliable flooding in an ad hoc network, there would be a lot of bookkeeping
> > and maybe a tree would after all be the right thing,...
>
> This would not be the same as "classical flooding", e.g., the leaves of the tree would
> not have to retransmit each packet.

I agree with you that this would be different.  Wouldn't it still be flooding, though?

> Charlie Perkins wrote:
>
> > I think there should be two work items for the manet working group:
> > 1) Unreliable, "best-effort" flooding
> > 2) Multicast.
>
> Frankly, I don't know whether Charlie means "classical flooding" or is allowing
> the possibility of a more efficient mechanism for network-wide broadcast.

I thought that "flooding" meant making an attempt to send some payload
to every node.  If that's right, then whether it is done "classically" or by
some other algorithm might not change the name of what is actually done.

> This confusion can be cleared up by using the term suggested by Brad Williams:
> "network-wide broadcast".  To me, "flooding" is one mechanism for achieving
> network-wide broadcast.

I understand that, but on the other hand "broadcast" has its own pile of baggage.
There's "limited broadcast", "network-wide broadcast", "directed broadcast",
and probably still "unreliable" vs. "reliable" broadcast ...


> I don't think the working group should dictate the *mechanism* for achieving
> network-wide broadcast, so I suggest that the first work item above
> be changed to "unreliable, network-wide broadcast".

I'm happy with whatever terminology people agree on.

> Another possility is to define "flooding" to be more than just "classical flooding",
> but this seems to confuse some people.

Why is it confusing?

Regards,
Charlie P.





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Hi Charlie,

I see that we both work late at night.

> Hello Richard,
> 
> There is a definition in "draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt", which
> was taken from a very old draft submitted for consideration within
> the manet working group.  I still think it would be a good idea to
> have a terminology draft, and the abovementioned draft would not
> be such a bad place to start.

Thanks, but that draft does not seem to be available - maybe it has expired.
Can you post the draft or at least the definition?

> 
> ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:
> 
> > However, people are now using the term "flooding" to mean something different.
> >
> > For example, Charlie Perkins implied that a tree *could* be used for flooding:
> >
> > > For reliable flooding in an ad hoc network, there would be a lot of bookkeeping
> > > and maybe a tree would after all be the right thing,...
> >
> > This would not be the same as "classical flooding", e.g., the leaves of the tree would
> > not have to retransmit each packet.
> 
> I agree with you that this would be different.  Wouldn't it still be flooding, though?

That depends on the definition of "flooding", which still is not clear to me.
(I tend to agree with two recent posters who consider "flooding" to be
essentially the same as "classical flooding".)

> 
> > Charlie Perkins wrote:
> >
> > > I think there should be two work items for the manet working group:
> > > 1) Unreliable, "best-effort" flooding
> > > 2) Multicast.
> >
> > Frankly, I don't know whether Charlie means "classical flooding" or is allowing
> > the possibility of a more efficient mechanism for network-wide broadcast.
> 
> I thought that "flooding" meant making an attempt to send some payload
> to every node.  If that's right, then whether it is done "classically" or by
> some other algorithm might not change the name of what is actually done.

My point is that I am not sure this is the correct definition of flooding.
In the 80's, "flooding" meant what we now call "classical flooding".
Other terms (e.g., limited flooding) were used when each packet was
transmitted by only a subset of nodes.  Has this definition changed?
Two people who recently posted to this list seem to think that the
definition has not changed.


> > This confusion can be cleared up by using the term suggested by Brad Williams:
> > "network-wide broadcast".  To me, "flooding" is one mechanism for achieving
> > network-wide broadcast.
> 
> I understand that, but on the other hand "broadcast" has its own pile of baggage.
> There's "limited broadcast", "network-wide broadcast", "directed broadcast",
> and probably still "unreliable" vs. "reliable" broadcast ...

That's true.  But isn't it clear and unambigous what "network-wide broadcast" means?

> > I don't think the working group should dictate the *mechanism* for achieving
> > network-wide broadcast, so I suggest that the first work item above
> > be changed to "unreliable, network-wide broadcast".
> 
> I'm happy with whatever terminology people agree on.

> > Another possility is to define "flooding" to be more than just "classical flooding",
> > but this seems to confuse some people.
> 
> Why is it confusing?

I think I addressed this above.  At least two recent posters have stated
that "flooding" means what we are calling "classical flooding".
I am concerned that this could confuse many more people in the future,
*if* a significant number of people also think this.

On the other hand, "network-wide broadcast" seems to be unambiguous.

Regards,
Richard




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Hi Richard,

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:

> 
> Hi Charlie,
> 
> I see that we both work late at night.
> 
> > Hello Richard,
> > 
> > There is a definition in "draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt", which
> > was taken from a very old draft submitted for consideration within
> > the manet working group.  I still think it would be a good idea to
> > have a terminology draft, and the abovementioned draft would not
> > be such a bad place to start.
> 
> Thanks, but that draft does not seem to be available - maybe it has expired.
> Can you post the draft or at least the definition?

I asked google. The draft is available here:

http://alternic.net/drafts/drafts-m-n/draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt

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Dear all,

Technically RPF is interface driven. You must know the input interface of
the incoming broadcast packet in order to decide retransmission. Flooding
(or at least one way to see it) is duplicate detection driven. In flooding,
you retransmit a broadcast packet at most once and you discard all
duplicates, otherwise you get a duplicate storm (possibly up to (N-1)^255
duplicates!). You can further optimize flooding by reducing the number of
nodes allowed to retransmit, but this is another part of the story.

There are several possibilities for performing duplicate detection (protocol
encapsulation sequence number, IP fragment identifier, packet CRC-like
signature...). However it seems easier than the interface detection needed
for RPF. The problem with MANET is that in general you have only one
interface and you generally retransmit the packet through the same interface
you have received it. This makes RPF difficult to implement in MANET.

Philippe

----- Original Message -----
From: Nast, Douglas P <douglas.p.nast@boeing.com>
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> dumber question.  Reverse path forwarding is the RFC-authorized (forget
> which at the moment) method for distributing a directed broadcast.  This
> relies on a unicast routing protocol that has determined "best" paths, is
> simple, yet significantly more efficient than flooding.  Why doesn't it
> apply?
>
>



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I agree with Miguel.  

Earlier Joe pointed out that my previous definition of flooding: 

>... "flooding" to me is sending a packet out on every
>interface but the one you received it on.  

was wrong because of the implications of the term "interface".

I agree.  Here's what I meant to say:

"Flooding is sending a packet out on every link (potentially logical) but
the one you recieved it on".

Of course distinct logical links are often realized using a common physical
interface.  I also appreciate Joe's mention of heterogeneity.  One logical
link might represent a broadcast network, another a connection to one
partner in a NBMA network.

I expect each of these logical links to have their own queues, and be
candidates for the forwarding process mechanized by the manet LSRP.  I think
this is what Miguel suggests too.

Also, flooding can occur at either layer 2 or layer 3, and specifying which
we are talking about should be high on the priority list.  So please don't
complain about my use of the word "packet" in my new and improved definition
:-).

Doug



-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel Sanchez Lopez [mailto:misan@ieee.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 9:17 AM
To: Philippe Jacquet; Fred Baker; manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil;
douglas.p.nast@boeing.com
Subject: Re: Manet Flooding


Hi all,

However as I see it, if you only have one interface but you do have a
routing 
table you can mimic each of your first-hop nodes (neighbors) as being 
different interfaces. Then you can do RPF given you have a metric for each 
neighbor and forwarding direction (i.e. you only retransmit a packet if it 
arrived from a neigbor who is the best route to the source of the flooding).

Only one interface per node should no be a problem then.

Regards,

Miguel Sanchez
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

El Jue 10 Ene 2002 14:08, Philippe Jacquet escribió:
> Dear all,
>
> Technically RPF is interface driven. You must know the input interface of
> the incoming broadcast packet in order to decide retransmission. Flooding
> (or at least one way to see it) is duplicate detection driven. In
flooding,
> you retransmit a broadcast packet at most once and you discard all
> duplicates, otherwise you get a duplicate storm (possibly up to (N-1)^255
> duplicates!). You can further optimize flooding by reducing the number of
> nodes allowed to retransmit, but this is another part of the story.
>
> There are several possibilities for performing duplicate detection
> (protocol encapsulation sequence number, IP fragment identifier, packet
> CRC-like signature...). However it seems easier than the interface
> detection needed for RPF. The problem with MANET is that in general you
> have only one interface and you generally retransmit the packet through
the
> same interface you have received it. This makes RPF difficult to implement
> in MANET.
>
> Philippe


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Thomas, Thanks for the pointer to the draft.

Philippe,

RPF may be interface driven in some protocols (e.g., DVMRP),
but if you look at the early papers on RPF, e.g.

Yogen K. Dalal, Robert Metcalfe: Reverse Path Forwarding of Broadcast Packets. 
CACM 21(12): 1040-1048(1978)

you will see that it is not interface driven - the decision of 
whether to retransmit (forward) the packet depends on the
node it was received from (i.e., it must be the parent node),
and also on whether the deciding node has any children (leaves
need not forward the packet).  This is easy to implement in a MANET.

Alternatively, RPF can be modified so that a packet is
forwarded even if received from a non-parent, as long
as it is not a duplicate.  (Fred Templin and I have discussed
these two variations of RPF or DVMRP.) This is different from 
flooding because in RPF leaves do not forward the packet, whereas 
in flooding all nodes forward the packet.  So RPF with
duplicate detection requires fewer transmissions than flooding, 
but requires knowing whether you are a leaf which may require
additional overhead.  On the other hand, RPF with duplicate
detection is more robust than the version of RPF that only
forwards packets received from the parent (since the parent's
transmission might not be heard).  But since duplicate detection
requires some effort, it is not clear to me which version of RPF
is preferable.

Richard


> Dear all,
> 
> Technically RPF is interface driven. You must know the input interface of
> the incoming broadcast packet in order to decide retransmission. Flooding
> (or at least one way to see it) is duplicate detection driven. In flooding,
> you retransmit a broadcast packet at most once and you discard all
> duplicates, otherwise you get a duplicate storm (possibly up to (N-1)^255
> duplicates!). You can further optimize flooding by reducing the number of
> nodes allowed to retransmit, but this is another part of the story.
> 
> There are several possibilities for performing duplicate detection (protocol
> encapsulation sequence number, IP fragment identifier, packet CRC-like
> signature...). However it seems easier than the interface detection needed
> for RPF. The problem with MANET is that in general you have only one
> interface and you generally retransmit the packet through the same interface
> you have received it. This makes RPF difficult to implement in MANET.
> 
> Philippe
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nast, Douglas P <douglas.p.nast@boeing.com>
> To: Manet (E-mail) <manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 6:46 AM
> Subject: RE: Manet Flooding
> 
> 
> > dumber question.  Reverse path forwarding is the RFC-authorized (forget
> > which at the moment) method for distributing a directed broadcast.  This
> > relies on a unicast routing protocol that has determined "best" paths, is
> > simple, yet significantly more efficient than flooding.  Why doesn't it
> > apply?
> >
> >
> 


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At 09:32 AM 1/10/2002, Nast, Douglas P wrote:
>"Flooding is sending a packet out on every link (potentially logical) but
>the one you recieved it on".

I think you have to decide whether "flooding" is something you are trying 
to do, or an algorithm for doing it. "flooding", to me, means "getting 
something to every node in a domain." The above is an algorithm for doing 
it, and works correctly if, for every two nodes using a communication 
channel, every node that one can exchange with is one that the other can 
exchange with.

In an Ethernet network, if I send a broadcast on a LAN, every node on the 
LAN will receive it. If another resends the broadcast, the resend is 
superfluous; every node will already have received it. I am told that in 
radio domains, this is not necessarily true. the fact that you and I can 
communicate by radio does not imply that you can communicate with every 
neighbor that I can communicate with. There may be a hill or tree in your 
path that is not in mine.

Hence, your proposed algorithm will get a message distributed to every node 
in an Ethernet-based network. It may not get the information to every node 
in a radio-based network.

The problem with RPF as an algorithm here is route asymmetry in a network 
that is in the process of changing. One does not accept a packet from *any* 
interface and forward it away from the source (else you would expect to 
forward as many copies as you have interfaces to receive it on less one), 
one accepts a packet from one's routing next hop and forwards it away from 
the source. If routes are symmetrical, that plays. However, if routes are 
not symmetrical (and when routing is changing, which I understand to be 
constantly true in a mobile ad hoc network, some routers have different 
information than others and so by definition routes are not symmetrical) 
the guy I want to accept the packet from may not be someone who wants to 
forward the packet to me. While the route momentarily loops, in a short 
period of time one would expect it to get sorted out. But with respect to 
the particular bit of information that you're trying to flood throughout 
the network, *at*the*instant*its*packet*is*being*looked*at*, the 
relationships are shot, and the forward progress of information 
distribution stops. I therefore am unable to guarantee that "every node in 
the network obtains the information."



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Fred,

Please see my comments below.

> At 09:32 AM 1/10/2002, Nast, Douglas P wrote:
> >"Flooding is sending a packet out on every link (potentially logical) but
> >the one you recieved it on".
> 
> I think you have to decide whether "flooding" is something you are trying 
> to do, or an algorithm for doing it. "flooding", to me, means "getting 
> something to every node in a domain." The above is an algorithm for doing 
> it, and works correctly if, for every two nodes using a communication 
> channel, every node that one can exchange with is one that the other can 
> exchange with.

If "flooding" is something you are trying to do, then what should we
call the above algorithm for doing it?  
I know that several papers since the 1980s have called the algorithm "flooding".
That is why I prefer to use the term "network-wide broadcast" to describe
what you are trying to do.

> The problem with RPF as an algorithm here is route asymmetry in a network 
> that is in the process of changing. One does not accept a packet from *any* 
> interface and forward it away from the source (else you would expect to 
> forward as many copies as you have interfaces to receive it on less one), 
> one accepts a packet from one's routing next hop and forwards it away from 
> the source. If routes are symmetrical, that plays. However, if routes are 
> not symmetrical (and when routing is changing, which I understand to be 
> constantly true in a mobile ad hoc network, some routers have different 
> information than others and so by definition routes are not symmetrical) 
> the guy I want to accept the packet from may not be someone who wants to 
> forward the packet to me. While the route momentarily loops, in a short 
> period of time one would expect it to get sorted out. But with respect to 
> the particular bit of information that you're trying to flood throughout 
> the network, *at*the*instant*its*packet*is*being*looked*at*, the 
> relationships are shot, and the forward progress of information 
> distribution stops. I therefore am unable to guarantee that "every node in 
> the network obtains the information."

You *can* guarantee that every node in the network obtains the information
if you modify RPF to use sequence numbers.  The following references prove this:

B. Awerbuch and S. Even. "Reliable Broadcast in Unreliable Networks", Networks,
Vol. 16, 1986, p. 381-396.

B. Bellur and R.G. Ogier. "A Reliable, Efficient Topology Broadcast Protocol
for Dynamic Networks", INFOCOM '99.

Richard

P.S. for Charlie and Thomas.  I looked at draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt 
and it does not contain the word "flooding".



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At 02:17 PM 1/10/2002, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:
>If "flooding" is something you are trying to do, then what should we call 
>the above algorithm for doing it?

"RPF" and "copying to every interface but the one we received it on" 
(VTEIBTOWRIO) come quickly to mind.

Consider AODV's requirement (on which I have commented to the authors) for 
AODV that it send on every interface, not every interface except that which 
it was received on or every interface except that which I consider to be my 
next hop, and ask yourself why?

I was asking a slightly higher level question. To me, "flooding" refers to 
the result, not the algorithm for achieving it.

>You *can* guarantee that every node in the network obtains the information 
>if you modify RPF to use sequence numbers.

Sequence numbers refer to the subset of the information you receive. RPF 
refers to the subset of interfaces to which I send. The former will be a 
subset of the latter. Think about it. If I don't send to you, what you 
think about sequence numbers may or may not be relevant.



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> 
> >You *can* guarantee that every node in the network obtains the information 
> >if you modify RPF to use sequence numbers.
> 
> Sequence numbers refer to the subset of the information you receive. RPF 
> refers to the subset of interfaces to which I send. The former will be a 
> subset of the latter. Think about it. If I don't send to you, what you 
> think about sequence numbers may or may not be relevant.

I see what you are saying.  The methods below assume that each
broadcast packet is stored at each node for some time, and has a 
sequence number.  If you don't send to me (as you say) because nodes
moved around, in RPF terminology you are my new parent (i.e.,
next hop to the broadcast source), and I will send you a NEW PARENT
message with a sequence number which refers to the subset of
information that I have received.  You will then send me 
the information that I have not yet received.

B. Awerbuch and S. Even. "Reliable Broadcast in Unreliable Networks", Networks,
Vol. 16, 1986, p. 381-396.

B. Bellur and R.G. Ogier. "A Reliable, Efficient Topology Broadcast Protocol
for Dynamic Networks", INFOCOM '99.

> To me, "flooding" refers to the result, not the algorithm for achieving it.

That is true for many people.  But for many other people
(I know of at least 5 now), "flooding" is a mechanism for achieving 
the result, and some call the result "network-wide broadcast".
It seems to me that everyone agrees on what "network-wide broadcast"
means, whereas people are split on what "flooding" means.
Wouldn't it be best to use the term that is unambiguous?

Richard



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Hi, all.

I used to use OPNET to simulate ad-hoc networks.
But, when nodes sense the wireless medium (Carrier Sensing),
OPNET couldn't cumulate the detected signals, I think.
OPNET regards only the latest signal as carrier.
So, when the strength of the latest signal is very weak, 
it may determine the medium is idle even when the other signals are strong.

Is this (still) true?

( By the way, when a node receive signal addressed to it, 
 OPNET can accumulate the other signals as interference.)

Regards.

************************
   Shingo Horisawa


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Hello Richard,

> P.S. for Charlie and Thomas.  I looked at draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt
> and it does not contain the word "flooding".

It's there.  I guess you should search for "Flooding" instead of "flooding".

Regards,
Charlie P.




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This discussion is getting to the point of diminishing returns.



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> This discussion is getting to the point of diminishing returns.

I agree. My main point was that RPF can be done reliably in MANETs,
and I cited two papers that prove this.  People can read those papers 
for more information.

Richard



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At 05:34 PM 1/9/2002 -0800, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:

>We still are not agreeing on the definition of "flooding", as I explain below.
>I hope we can clear this up and come up with a definition that we can agree on.
>Internet Drafts are supposed to define their terms, but I have not seen
>the term "flooding" actually defined in either of the following drafts:
>
>  draft-ietf-manet-bcast-00.txt 
>  draft-ietf-manet-simple-mbcast-01.txt
>
>First I will summarize how some people define "flooding":
>
>Nast, Douglas P wrote:
> 
>> By way of clarifification, "flooding" to me is sending a packet out on every
>> interface but the one you received it on.   It generates a lot of duplicates
>> and wastes a lot of bandwidth.  RPF is appreciably better in theory
>> (although Fred warns me against it). 
>
>Joe Macker wrote:
>
>> I just wanted to correct the flooding definition above which uses the term interface,
>> For some wireless interfaces, forwarding out the physical interface a packet is received 
>> is allowed and expected when flooding and when generally forwarding. 
>
>Let's assume for simplicity that every node in the MANET has a single broadcast interface.  
>If we correct Doug Nast's definition according to Joe, then each flooded packet 
>will be transmitted by every node in the network.

Richard, the above is not what I meant in clarifying Doug's definition.  I was only pointing out the "semi-broadcast nature" of some wireless MAC layers and that for wireless interfaces one cannot assume that forwarding out the interface it came in on is wrong. This does not imply every node has to transmit the packet.  So .. the interface term was a wrong one to use for a flooding definition..that's an implementation specific thing.  It just so happens that it is often an implementation assumption for flooding techniques in wired networks.  Also, even when forwarding out the same interface (as needed) not every node has to transmit the packet to more optimally flood so the two are issues are separable.

Its a good terminology discussion I just wanted to further clarify what I meant by adding to Doug's message .... for some of you its second nature by now but to the larger community I feel some of the unique wireless routing interface issues may sometimes be misunderstood ... so we should be careful in any discussion in laying out assumptions and techniques.

-Joe
 






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Charlie,

> 
> Hello Richard,
> 
> > P.S. for Charlie and Thomas.  I looked at draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt
> > and it does not contain the word "flooding".
> 
> It's there.  I guess you should search for "Flooding" instead of "flooding".

My search was not case sensitive.  Check for yourself:

http://www.alternic.org/drafts/drafts-m-n/draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt

Regards,
Richard

> 
> Regards,
> Charlie P.
> 
> 


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Hello folks,

Sorry for the confusion.  I don't know what had gone wrong with
this.  It could have to do with problems with late submission on
the last day before IETF deadlines.

The latest version of this draft that I have is available at:
	http://people.nokia.net/~charliep/txt/seamoby/term.txt

If there is interest here, I would be happy to update the text
and have it for consideration as a working group document.  I think
it may also be under consideration within [seamoby].  I reckon that
both groups "ought" to be using the terms to mean the same thing.
I don't think that Jukka Manner or the other co-authors would mind,
but I have CC:'d them on this note in case they wish to offer
more thoughts on the issue.

Regards,
Charlie P.



ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:
> 
> Charlie,
> 
> >
> > Hello Richard,
> >
> > > P.S. for Charlie and Thomas.  I looked at draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt
> > > and it does not contain the word "flooding".
> >
> > It's there.  I guess you should search for "Flooding" instead of "flooding".
> 
> My search was not case sensitive.  Check for yourself:
> 
> http://www.alternic.org/drafts/drafts-m-n/draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt
> 
> Regards,
> Richard
> 
> >
> > Regards,
> > Charlie P.
> >
> >


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Hello, 

Quoting Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>:

> trying to do, or an algorithm for doing it. "flooding", to me, means "getting 
> something to every node in a domain." 

I agree to the above definition completely but I think in order to 
keep the efficiency in mind we should modify this a bit to say 
"Best effort service of getting something to every node in the domain."

Also when you say flooding, in *classical ways* it means to me as follows:  
"Request for a remote node to propagate the information along with flooding
request (I am avoiding other terms to keep conflict of layers at a minimum) 
contained in the flooding request to as many nodes as it can (best efforts 
service), while taking care to avoid replication using local information."

I do not understand why this classical way of definition is not fitting in Ad 
Hoc Mobile Networks? Clarifications please!!

Thanks,
Hridesh



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Richard:

You inadvertently pulled up an older copy 00 of the ID. A definition of flooding is indeed in there. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-manner-seamoby-terms-03.txt

-Joe

At 08:49 AM 1/11/2002 -0800, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:

>Charlie,
>
>> 
>> Hello Richard,
>> 
>> > P.S. for Charlie and Thomas.  I looked at draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt
>> > and it does not contain the word "flooding".
>> 
>> It's there.  I guess you should search for "Flooding" instead of "flooding".
>
>My search was not case sensitive.  Check for yourself:
>
>http://www.alternic.org/drafts/drafts-m-n/draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt
>
>Regards,
>Richard
>
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Charlie P.
>> 
>> 




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At 01:11 PM 1/11/2002, Hridesh Rajan wrote:
>"Request for a remote node to propagate the information along with flooding
>request (I am avoiding other terms to keep conflict of layers at a minimum)
>contained in the flooding request to as many nodes as it can (best efforts
>service), while taking care to avoid replication using local information."

in some applications, that may be what it means.

In classical routing, there is no attempt to limit replication, and it is 
not something *requested*, it is something *done*. When OSPF, for example, 
decides that a link has changed state or a neighbor has changed state, it 
generates a new LSA and floods it throughout its area. The node itself 
decided that, replication is a non-issue, and getting it to every node is 
of paramount importance, and so it uses an acknowledged protocol to ensure 
the distribution.



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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Fred Baker wrote:

> At 01:11 PM 1/11/2002, Hridesh Rajan wrote:
> >"Request for a remote node to propagate the information along with flooding
> >request (I am avoiding other terms to keep conflict of layers at a minimum)
> >contained in the flooding request to as many nodes as it can (best efforts
> >service), while taking care to avoid replication using local information."
>
> in some applications, that may be what it means.
>
> In classical routing, there is no attempt to limit replication, and it is
> not something *requested*, it is something *done*. When OSPF, for example,

When I defined flooding as a request above I was talking about the nodes which
are not the source of the information. For them I consider flooding as a
request. For the source node as well we can consider it as a request by
the local host.


> decides that a link has changed state or a neighbor has changed state, it
> generates a new LSA and floods it throughout its area. The node itself
> decided that, replication is a non-issue, and getting it to every node is
> of paramount importance, and so it uses an acknowledged protocol to ensure
> the distribution.
>

Whether in case of Ad Hoc Mobile Network getting the message to every node
will still be of paramount importance ? In fixed network its valid, but in
the case of Ad Hoc Mobile Networks in most cases its true that if a node
doesn't receives a packet it won't need that packet. I am assuming a situation
such as generation of a new LSA in OSPF. Lets assume a node A is trying to send
a new LSA to node B. This packet is of use to B dependent upon the connectivity
of A and B. I believe that in most cases if B doesn't receives this packet A can
safely assume that B can't use this information and so avoid using acknowledged
protocol for flooding.

Hridesh




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> Richard:
> 
> You inadvertently pulled up an older copy 00 of the ID. A definition 
> of flooding is indeed in there. 
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-manner-seamoby-terms-03.txt

Thanks, Joe.  (I don't think "inadvertently" is the right word,
since I was just following the links people posted.)

So I guess the consensus is that flooding means
"the process of delivering data or control messages to every 
node within the network under consideration",
and is therefore synonymous with "network-wide broadcast".

The brute-force mechanism for doing this is called
"classical flooding" in draft-ietf-manet-bcast-00.txt 
(and some other drafts) and "pure flooding" in the OLSR draft.
So I guess all other mechanisms for flooding are "impure".  :-)

In the 1980s, what we now call "classical flooding" was
called "flooding", so the definition of "flooding" is now 
more general, and even includes tree-based broadcast.
That's OK with me if most people agree on this.
I know some people who still consider "flooding" to mean
classical (brute-force) flooding, but I guess they (and I) 
will have to change their thinking.

Richard



> 
> -Joe
> 
> At 08:49 AM 1/11/2002 -0800, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:
> 
> >Charlie,
> >
> >> 
> >> Hello Richard,
> >> 
> >> > P.S. for Charlie and Thomas.  I looked at draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.
txt
> >> > and it does not contain the word "flooding".
> >> 
> >> It's there.  I guess you should search for "Flooding" instead of "flooding
".
> >
> >My search was not case sensitive.  Check for yourself:
> >
> >http://www.alternic.org/drafts/drafts-m-n/draft-manner-seamoby-terms-00.txt
> >
> >Regards,
> >Richard
> >
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Charlie P.
> >> 
> >> 
> 
> 


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From <draft-manner-seamoby-terms-03.txt>  as proposed by Charlie Perkins:

Flooding:

       The process of delivering data or control messages to every node
       within the network under consideration.

I'm happy to use this definition (and I will in this email).

Back to Scott Corson's original request:

> So I would like to begin discussion of what exactly it means (technically)
> to flood information throughout a manet domain.  ..... This discussion could
> hopefully lead to the publishing of a manet flooding requirements document
> that specifies
> this capability .....  Thoughts?

These are the requirements I would choose for a MANET Flooding protocol.
Hopefully, this isn't too basic for the group.  Also, some might be a little
optimistic:

1. Layer 3 protocol, I guess this is obvious.
2. Best Effort only.
3. Distributed in nature.
4. Highest priority should be to maximize delivery ratio (percent of network
nodes that receive a given flooded packet).
5. Protocol should attempt to minimize end-end delay (time for all nodes to
receive the packet), but should not sacrifice delivery ratio.  This means that
the Flooding protocol would not be recommended for time sensitive routing.
6. Protocol should attempt to minimize redundant retransmissions (ie leaf nodes
don't retransmit).
7. Protocol should be robust given common MANET conditions (ie high channel
congestion,  frequently changing topologies).
8.  Protocol should be easily interfaced by other network layer routing
protocols.
9.  If the Protocol uses "Hello" packets, allow other routing protocols access
to neighbor topology information and also allow the other protocols to put
payload in the "Hello" packets.
10. "Hello" packets require node resources, so a Flooding protocol should
attempt to maximize the beaconing period given both utilization and topology
change rate constraints.
11. Allow payloads of various sizes.
12. Must have the means to prevent loops/replication.
13. Should attempt to minimize node resource by having low order algorithms and
low state requirements.
14. Should allow aggregation of payloads at the source node.

I'm interested in what others think.

Thanks,
Brad



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Folks,

I was indeed talking about "what to do" and not "how to do it".

I'm basically fine with the following general definition of a manet flooding
"service".

> "the process of delivering data or control messages to every 
> node within the network under consideration".

The service may ride upon/be imbedded within existing manet unicast routing
protocols, or can be a separate entity.

The *persistence* of a protocol in achieving the service's aim is up to the
protocol designers IMO, trading off probability of delivery vs. work
expended.

Whilst I'm fully aware of the literature Richard repeatedly cites, we are
working on IETF standards and the terms "network" and "broadcast" are a bit
overloaded already, so I suggest the term "flooding" to describe this
service in the IETF context.

So, if consensus exists with the aforementioned definition, can we now
switch to a more detailed discussion of the service?  Do we use multicast or
broadcast addresses for example?  I'm looking for a manet flooding service
definition of sorts, rather like what RFC1112 provides for IP multicast.

-Scott


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Some reactions to these suggestions.

> 1. Layer 3 protocol, I guess this is obvious.
SC> yes

> 2. Best Effort only.
SC> as is traditionally known...yes

> 3. Distributed in nature.
SC> not really a requirement, but likely required of any useful protocol, at
the designer's discretion IMO

> 4. Highest priority should be to maximize delivery ratio 
> (percent of network
> nodes that receive a given flooded packet).
SC> unneeded requirement, again at designer's discretion

> 5. Protocol should attempt to minimize end-end delay (time 
> for all nodes to
> receive the packet), but should not sacrifice delivery ratio. 
>  This means that
> the Flooding protocol would not be recommended for time 
> sensitive routing.
SC> designer's discretion

> 6. Protocol should attempt to minimize redundant 
> retransmissions (ie leaf nodes
> don't retransmit).
SC> designer's discretion

> 7. Protocol should be robust given common MANET conditions 
> (ie high channel
> congestion,  frequently changing topologies).
SC> designer's discretion

> 8.  Protocol should be easily interfaced by other network 
> layer routing
> protocols.
SC> unclear requirement, this is certainly a goal

> 9.  If the Protocol uses "Hello" packets, allow other routing 
> protocols access
> to neighbor topology information and also allow the other 
> protocols to put
> payload in the "Hello" packets.
SC> mechanism-dependent, not a requirement

> 10. "Hello" packets require node resources, so a Flooding 
> protocol should
> attempt to maximize the beaconing period given both 
> utilization and topology
> change rate constraints.
SC> mechanism again, not requirement

> 11. Allow payloads of various sizes.
SC> yes

> 12. Must have the means to prevent loops/replication.
SC> designer's discretion

> 13. Should attempt to minimize node resource by having low 
> order algorithms and
> low state requirements.
SC> designer's discretion

> 14. Should allow aggregation of payloads at the source node.
SC> designer's discretion

As you can see, my input as a WG member is not to specify or even bias the
manner in which the service is delivered.  Well-conceived, useful protocols
will find users, others will not.  

What is the minimal specification required to design a best efforts manet
flooding service? I think the addressing scheme needs agreement.  Anything
else?

-Scott


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Scott wrote:

> Whilst I'm fully aware of the literature Richard repeatedly cites, we are
> working on IETF standards and the terms "network" and "broadcast" are a bit
> overloaded already, so I suggest the term "flooding" to describe this
> service in the IETF context.

I agree with this term and will use it from now on.
I will call the brute-force mechanism "classical flooding", 
since that seems to be the consensus.

> So, if consensus exists with the aforementioned definition, can we now
> switch to a more detailed discussion of the service?  Do we use multicast or
> broadcast addresses for example?  I'm looking for a manet flooding service
> definition of sorts, rather like what RFC1112 provides for IP multicast.

Regarding addresses, the two multicast addresses "ALL_IPv4_MANET_NODES" 
and "ALL_IPv6_MANET_NODES" that Charlie proposed in 
draft-ietf-manet-bcast-00.txt make sense to me.  (I think Fred Templin 
also suggested such a multicast address several months ago.)

It seems to me that the flooding service should also be
used to provide general multicasting, in case a MANET multicast
protocol is not available.  Thus, a packet that has *any* multicast 
address that is associated with the MANET can also be flooded.
This requires all MANET nodes to know the multicast address
of every group associated with the network, but not the membership
of each group (which I think is reasonable). Does this make sense?

I agree with Scott that protocol characteristics such as
reliability, etc., should be the designers discretion.

> The service may ride upon/be imbedded within existing manet unicast routing
> protocols, or can be a separate entity.

It seems to me that each of the four main routing protocols
already have a mechanism for flooding that is easily 
extended to handle general data packets. (We have not yet
stated this for TBRPF, but it is not hard to do.)
If AODV, DSR, OLSR, and TBRPF each has its own efficient flooding 
mechanism, I do not see the need for a separate flooding protocol
other than classical flooding, since anything other than
classical flooding will probably require additional overhead.
(So it seems to me that the focus will probably be on flooding
mechanisms that are routing-protocol dependent.)

Regards,
Richard



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Hi Doug,

I would like to comment on your definition of classical flooding.

Doug Nast wrote:

> "Flooding is sending a packet out on every link (potentially logical) but
> the one you recieved it on".
> 
> Of course distinct logical links are often realized using a common physical
> interface.  I also appreciate Joe's mention of heterogeneity.  One logical
> link might represent a broadcast network, another a connection to one
> partner in a NBMA network.
> 
> I expect each of these logical links to have their own queues, and be
> candidates for the forwarding process mechanized by the manet LSRP.  I think
> this is what Miguel suggests too.

I will use Joe's terminology "semi-broadcast" to describe a 
non-broadcast wireless interface.  

Applying your definition to a MANET network in which each node
has a single interface, each node has a separate logical link to
each neighbor, and the definition therefore seems to imply that a 
separate transmission is required to each neighbor (except the
neighbor from which the packet was received).  Of course, if several
neighbors can be reached on a single interface, only one transmission
is needed.  

I suggest the following definition of classical flooding for
multiple interfaces:

"If a non-duplicate flooded packet is received on interface I, 
then the packet is sent (retransmitted) on every interface other 
than I, and is also sent on interface I if it is a semi-broadcast 
interface."

I was thinking of saying "if interface I is a semi-broadcast interface
with at least one neighbor other than the one from which the packet
was received", but it is possible that we want to reach nodes that are 
not known to be neighbors.

Regards,
Richard



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Correction...

> It seems to me that the flooding service should also be
> used to provide general multicasting, in case a MANET multicast
> protocol is not available.  Thus, a packet that has *any* multicast 
> address that is associated with the MANET can also be flooded.

I did not really mean *any* multicast address; 
I meant any multicast address that is forwardable
(which excludes the limited broadcast address 255.255.255.255
and the low-numbered multicast addresses 224.x.x.x).  

(Fred Templin and I previously suggested a method using 
encapsulation to allow the non-forwardable addresses to be 
multicast or flooded to all MANET nodes, but that is
outside the scope of what I am discussing.)

I suppose flooding can also be used for prefix-directed broadcast.
Assuming that each MANET node knows all the prefixes associated 
with the MANET, any packet having the prefix-directed broadcast
address for any prefix associated with the MANET can be flooded.
Comments?

Richard



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Hi Charlie,

(See comments)

"Perkins Charles (IPRG)" wrote:
> 
> Hello Manel,
> 
> Manel Guerrero Zapata wrote:
> 
>              ........
> 
> > Now, let's look again to the problem. Let's jump to the section 8.7:
> >
> > 8.7. Forwarding Route Replies
> >         (Paragraph 4)
> >         "When any node generates or forwards a RREP, the precursor
> list
> >         for the corresponding destination node is updated by adding to
> >         it the next hop node to which the RREP is forwarded. [...]"
> >
> >         But there is nothing like that for Gratuitous RREPs or for
> RREQs.
> >         So the error recovery system that AODV has now will never work
> with
> >         routes that where created as reverse routes or by a G-RREP.
> The nodes
> >         will never forward RERRs.
> >
> >         I think there should be something like this in the section
> >         '8.6.3. Generating Gratuitous RREPs':
> >
> >            When any node generates or forwards a _Gratuitous_ RREP,
> the
> >            precursor list for the corresponding _source_ node is
> updated
> >            by adding to it the next hop node to which the RREP is
> forwarded.
> 
> This was an unintended omission.  I had already fixed this in
> (still unreleased) revision 10.
> 
> >          And something like this in the section
> >         '8.5. Processing and Forwarding Route Requests':
> >
> >            When any node generates or forwards a _RREQ_, the precursor
> list
> >            for the corresponding _source_ node is updated by adding to
> it
> >            the next hop nodes to which the _RREQ_ is forwarded.
> >
> >            But the RREQ is forwarded to everybody. So precursor lists
> >            should be as they used to be but with the 'everybody' flag.
> >            When I want to add everybody in a precursor list, I clear
> >            the list and set the flag. When I want to chech if somebody
> >            is in a precursor list, I first check the flag and if it is
> >            not set I search in the list. When I want to empty the
> list,
> >            I clear the flag and empty the list.
> 
> This is not necessary.  I would worry about generating RERRs for
> such routes.  If the path to the originating node happens to break
> during Route Discovery, we don't want RERRs to be generated for
> those neighbors that had received the retransmitted RREQ.
> 
> Besides that, the next hops that receive the retransmitted RREQ
> message will be put into the appropriate precursor lists at the
> appropriate time -- i.e., when the RREP comes back through.
> 
> Regards,
> Charlie P.


Well, I see your point. 
But let's look at this example:

Usualy, when doing a route discovery a lot of routes are created by
the floding of the RREQ, only those ones who are in the path that will
be discovery will survive. The rest will be deleted in a short time.
But, there is the possibility that one of those routes will be used
by some other transmision, and therefore its lifetime updated.
Now this route is actively used but the precursor lists are not
correct. When the link will break the RERR will not be issued.

How likely is this to happen? Well, it depends on the movility and
on the number of simultaneous transmisions, but maybe it is more or
less as probable than a link breakage happens in discovery time.


BR/Manel Guerrero


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Hi,
When reading about some of the proactive routing protocols I found 
inconsistencies about their historical dates (The date they were invented). 
Would someone please arrange the following according to their dates ?
DSDV
WRP
GSR
FSR
LANMAR
ZHLS
OLSR

Thank you..

Kamel



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Flooding for

> > "the process of delivering data or control messages to every
> > node within the network under consideration".

Classical Flooding for

> "Request for a remote node to propagate the information along with
flooding
> request (I am avoiding other terms to keep conflict of layers at a
minimum)
> contained in the flooding request to as many nodes as it can (best efforts
> service), while taking care to avoid replication using local information."

are OK for me. The former is for the objective and the latter is a mechanism
intended to achieve this objective.

Philippe




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Hello all, 
       I'd like to know if a GPS is implemented in the node of the ad hoc network, Will the topology management problem can be solved? and the routing protocol can also be simpler than nowadays? If location can be sure of, the communication problem can be changed into "power consumption(saving) problem" and "MAC problem"? Thanks in advance, who have interests on this fields.


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From: Marwaha Shivanajay <engp1609@nus.edu.sg>
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Hi,
I have come across a v. useful paper which shows that using GPS info, the
route discovery flooding can be controlled in a given zone called the
routing zone thereby not flooding the entire network. I think this was by
Prof. Nitin Vaidya (most probably).

Other papers can also be found which use GPS info.  For military purposes
not only GPS but also UAVs can be used for getting locaion info.

But like military satellites that give v accurate location info, do
commercial satellites also give reasonably accurate location?
Also, I want to know whether it is cost affective and what is the coverage
and availability aspect of GPS in non-military applications of MANETs.

Regards,
Shivanajay Marwaha
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Hello all, 
       I'd like to know if a GPS is implemented in the node of the ad hoc
network, Will the topology management problem can be solved? and the routing
protocol can also be simpler than nowadays? If location can be sure of, the
communication problem can be changed into "power consumption(saving)
problem" and "MAC problem"? Thanks in advance, who have interests on this
fields.


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¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡veron_yang@263.net
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hello,

In the ns-2 simulator with CMU wireless extension,
the document said that the implementation is based on IEEE 802.11.
It's clearly to know that the PHYSICAL layer is FHSS, but in this module,
the PHY layer is DSSS.
We know that the PHY layer will infect the transmission rate like
IEEE 802.11   -> FHSS ->  2Mbps
IEEE 802.11b -> DSSS -> 11Mbps
So, why in the CMU wireless extension, the implementation is DSSS, but
the transmission rate is still limited in 2Mbps ?
In other way, can we change the rate to 11Mbps..
Please help  me to answer my questions.

thanks.

sincerely,
ice






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This is an old question. GPS can only be used outdoor and does not
necessarily reflect the connectivity of the network. For example two nodes
may have close coordinates but are out of radio range because there is an
obstacle between them (tree, cars, building, hill). Conversely two nodes
maybe far away and are within radio range because of favorable echos (two
nodes in a long narrow street between steel-glass buildings).

Philippe
----- Original Message -----
From: "veron@263" <veron_yang@263.net>
To: <manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:00 AM
Subject: Will GPS be very important in ad hoc network?


> Hello all,
>        I'd like to know if a GPS is implemented in the node of the ad hoc
network, Will the topology management problem can be solved? and the routing
protocol can also be simpler than nowadays? If location can be sure of, the
communication problem can be changed into "power consumption(saving)
problem" and "MAC problem"? Thanks in advance, who have interests on this
fields.
>
>
> ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡veron
> ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡veron_yang@263.net
> ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡2002-01-16



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GPS is funded by and controlled by the U. S. Department of Defense (DOD) 
and the system was designed for the U.S. Military.
There are also many civil users of GPS and the selective availability was 
turned off in May 2000 to allow all users precise positions. The idea of 
using GPS with wireless devices are already beening developed but when 
used with ad hoc networks there are a number of problems. A few of those 
problems include the cost of extra hardware and the availablity of GPS 
signals inside buildings and other structures. The idea of using GPS to 
improve upon the ad hoc network algorithms are possible but appears to be 
outside the scope of this working group.

I hope that helps...
-----------------------------------------
Daniel R. Oldham Ph.D.
Computer Engineer
Satellite Networks and Architectures Branch
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 1/16/02, 3:17:00 AM, Marwaha Shivanajay <engp1609@nus.edu.sg> wrote 
regarding RE: Will GPS be very important in ad hoc network?:


> Hi,
> I have come across a v. useful paper which shows that using GPS info, the
> route discovery flooding can be controlled in a given zone called the
> routing zone thereby not flooding the entire network. I think this was by
> Prof. Nitin Vaidya (most probably).

> Other papers can also be found which use GPS info.  For military purposes
> not only GPS but also UAVs can be used for getting locaion info.

> But like military satellites that give v accurate location info, do
> commercial satellites also give reasonably accurate location?
> Also, I want to know whether it is cost affective and what is the 
coverage
> and availability aspect of GPS in non-military applications of MANETs.

> Regards,
> Shivanajay Marwaha
> -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~
> RS, ECE Dept., NUS.
> Singapore.
> http://www.nus.edu.sg/




> -----Original Message-----
> From: veron@263 [mailto:veron_yang@263.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:00 AM
> To: manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil
> Subject: Will GPS be very important in ad hoc network?


> Hello all,
>        I'd like to know if a GPS is implemented in the node of the ad hoc
> network, Will the topology management problem can be solved? and the 
routing
> protocol can also be simpler than nowadays? If location can be sure of, 
the
> communication problem can be changed into "power consumption(saving)
> problem" and "MAC problem"? Thanks in advance, who have interests on this
> fields.


> ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡veron
> ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡veron_yang@263.net
> ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡2002-01-16


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One use of GPS that I came across for routing is described in the attch()
paper.
It uses GPS location info to narrow down the flooding, making use of
expected & routing zones in on demand routing protocols.
http://www.cs.tamu.edu/faculty/vaidya/papers/mobile-computing/mobicom98.pdf

Regards,
Shivanajay Marwaha

-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~
RS, ECE Dept., NUS.
Singapore.
http://www.nus.edu.sg/
-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~

-----Original Message-----
From: Philippe Jacquet [mailto:philippe.jacquet@inria.fr]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 6:41 PM
To: veron@263; manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Subject: Re: Will GPS be very important in ad hoc network?


This is an old question. GPS can only be used outdoor and does not
necessarily reflect the connectivity of the network. For example two nodes
may have close coordinates but are out of radio range because there is an
obstacle between them (tree, cars, building, hill). Conversely two nodes
maybe far away and are within radio range because of favorable echos (two
nodes in a long narrow street between steel-glass buildings).

Philippe
----- Original Message -----
From: "veron@263" <veron_yang@263.net>
To: <manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:00 AM
Subject: Will GPS be very important in ad hoc network?


> Hello all,
>        I'd like to know if a GPS is implemented in the node of the ad hoc
network, Will the topology management problem can be solved? and the routing
protocol can also be simpler than nowadays? If location can be sure of, the
communication problem can be changed into "power consumption(saving)
problem" and "MAC problem"? Thanks in advance, who have interests on this
fields.
>
>
> ????????????????????????????veron
> ????????????????????????????veron_yang@263.net
> ??????????????????????????????????2002-01-16


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On demand ad hoc networks do not scale well according to the research at the 
URL below.  Any comments on this work?

http://www.msiac.dmso.mil/journal/wong32.html

Thanks,

Phil



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We have recently published a survey on position-based routing for mobile
ad hoc networks in IEEE Network Magazine, November/December 2001 issue.

Title:" A Survey on Position-Based Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks"
Authors: M. Mauve, J. Widmer, H. Hartenstein

We think that position-based routing might be a promising approach for
vehicular ad hoc networks ... results are underway ...

Hannes

"veron@263" wrote:

> Hello all,
>        I'd like to know if a GPS is implemented in the node of the ad hoc network, Will the topology management problem can be solved? and the routing protocol can also be simpler than nowadays? If location can be sure of, the communication problem can be changed into "power consumption(saving) problem" and "MAC problem"? Thanks in advance, who have interests on this fields.
>
> ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡veron
> ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡veron_yang@263.net
> ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡2002-01-16

--
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Hi,

I have seen Charlie pull out the terminology draft at least a few times! :-)  Why can't 
some WG chair in SeaMoby or MANET adopt it as WG draft?

http://people.nokia.net/~charliep/txt/seamoby/term.txt

It seems that many times arguments are over terminology.  IMO, I would like to 
the SeaMoby WG become a bridge between MANET and MIP technologies, 
especially with respect to AR discovery and CT.  This terminology draft would make
a very nice addition to the SeaMoby WG draft list.  

Best regards,

Phil



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At 01:08 PM 1/16/2002 +0800, veron@263 wrote:
>Hello all, 
>       I'd like to know if a GPS is implemented in the node of the ad hoc network, Will the topology management problem can be solved? and the routing protocol can also be 

No it will not be solved. It MAY help in some cases/specific systems (it is interesting and of some value).

A couple points real quick begin a person who has experimented significantly with such systems...

(1) GPS does not operate well in many environments of interest, inside buildings being the obvious one.

(2) Geographic topology does not necessarily reflect desired routing topology or actual achievable wireless topology (non-homogeneous, non-symmetric  propagation medium).

Also, we have had this debate many times in the past. My thought is it can be useful as optimization aid in certain cases and under certain conditions. Also knowing location doesn't tell me the power requirement (it can be order of magnitude off), unless I have a known homogeneous propagation medium.  Simple example is, I am Node A, Node B is north 500 feet away down a clear line-of-sight roadway with little obstructions, Node C is south 300 feet away from me through dense foliage.  I likely need alot more transmit power to reach C. The radio propagation environment's limiting factors are very scenario specific and dynamic due to shadowing, diffraction,etc. evem when nodes are not mobile themselves..

>simpler than nowadays? If location can be sure of, the communication problem can be changed into "power consumption(saving) problem" and "MAC problem"? Thanks in advance, who have interests on this fields.
>
>
>¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡veron
>¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡veron_yang@263.net
>¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡2002-01-16




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Li-Peng,

>In the ns-2 simulator with CMU wireless extension,
>the document said that the implementation is based on IEEE 802.11.
>It's clearly to know that the PHYSICAL layer is FHSS, but in this module,
>the PHY layer is DSSS.
>We know that the PHY layer will infect the transmission rate like
>IEEE 802.11   -> FHSS ->  2Mbps
>IEEE 802.11b -> DSSS -> 11Mbps
>So, why in the CMU wireless extension, the implementation is DSSS, but
>the transmission rate is still limited in 2Mbps ?


802.11 defines three PHY layers: DSSS, FHSS, and infrared,
all at 1Mbps or 2Mbps depending on the modulation.
So, DSSS does not imply that it's 802.11b.
802.11b is restricted to DSSS, but it's implemented
differently than 802.11 DSSS, and that's why it
achieves higher troughput.


Martin



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At 05:30 PM 1/16/2002 +0800, Li-Ping Tung wrote:
>hello,
>
>In the ns-2 simulator with CMU wireless extension,
>the document said that the implementation is based on IEEE 802.11.
>It's clearly to know that the PHYSICAL layer is FHSS, but in this module,
>the PHY layer is DSSS.

802.11 Physical layers can be FHSS or DSSS.  Most manufacturers implement pure DSSS with alternate modulations (DPSK, DQPSK,etc) for achieving different signal rates (1,2, 5.5, 11 Mbps). So there is nothing wrong with DSSS at 2 Mbps as you seem to indicate. In fact, FHSS systems are less common in implementation.  

It would be interested to have both modeled and to have the multi-rate feature.  If you are interested in 11 Mbps, you should be able to go into the ns2 code and make appropriate modifications to change the raw rate and to estimate achievable ranges (transmit range will be smaller), related parameters,etc at higher modem rates.  If you just want to look at 11mbps fixed rate this shouldn't be too hard, dynamic rate changes would be harder to model.

>We know that the PHY layer will infect the transmission rate like
>IEEE 802.11   -> FHSS ->  2Mbps
>IEEE 802.11b -> DSSS -> 11Mbps
>So, why in the CMU wireless extension, the implementation is DSSS, but
>the transmission rate is still limited in 2Mbps ?
>In other way, can we change the rate to 11Mbps..
>Please help  me to answer my questions.
>
>thanks.
>
>sincerely,
>ice




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Hi,
just a comment from a future user of MANET protocol. We develop seismic
recorders for field experiment (ie outdoors) that includes
both 802.11b radio and GPS.
- The GPS first purpose is to give an accurate time (better than ms) to the
recorder. Thus, the first use  of the
GPS-radio association will be the ability of setting precise time window where
radios are supposed to talk and sleep, that is
a power-saving concern.
- The second GPS possible application is to obtain from the receiver one of the
two phases (named L1) and to perform relative location
   by postprocessing. The relative location accuracy is expected to be <1cm when
aperture do not exceed ~km.
   We plan to use that to display a geometry of the network in the field.

Cheers
O. Coutant


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Hi,
<br>just a comment from a future user of MANET protocol. We develop seismic
recorders for field experiment (ie outdoors) that includes
<br>both 802.11b radio and GPS.
<br>- The GPS first purpose is to give an accurate time (better than ms)
to the recorder. Thus, the first use&nbsp; of the
<br>GPS-radio association will be the ability of setting precise time window
where radios are supposed to talk and sleep, that is
<br>a power-saving concern.
<br>- The second GPS&nbsp;possible application is to obtain from the receiver
one of the two phases (named L1) and to perform relative location
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; by postprocessing. The relative location accuracy is expected
to be &lt;1cm when aperture do not exceed ~km.
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; We plan to use that to display a geometry of the network
in the field.
<p>Cheers
<br>O. Coutant
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Hello folks,

This is a good idea.  Where can we find a list of the acceptable
security terminology to incorporate into the terminology draft?

Regards,
Charlie P.


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> I brought this topic up with the ADs again yesterday, and there seems
> to be agreement that such a document is necessary. However, it would
> be useful if this document also included the security terminology
> that we use, since it conflicts with some of the terms used WGs in
> other areas (e.g. IPSec).
> 
> PatC
> 
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Neumiller [mailto:pneumiller@meshnetworks.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 6:39 AM
> To: manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil; seamoby@ietf.org
> Subject: [Seamoby] Terminology Draft Needed
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have seen Charlie pull out the terminology draft at least a few
> times! :-)  Why can't
> some WG chair in SeaMoby or MANET adopt it as WG draft?
> 
> http://people.nokia.net/~charliep/txt/seamoby/term.txt
> 
> It seems that many times arguments are over terminology.  IMO, I
> would like to
> the SeaMoby WG become a bridge between MANET and MIP technologies,
> especially with respect to AR discovery and CT.  This terminology
> draft would make a very nice addition to the SeaMoby WG draft list.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Phil
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>?Hello all,
>        I'd like to know if a GPS is implemented in the node of the 
>ad hoc network, Will the topology management problem can be solved? 
>and the routing protocol can also be simpler than nowadays? If 
>location can be sure of, the communication problem can be changed 
>into "power consumption(saving) problem" and "MAC problem"? Thanks 
>in advance, who have interests on this fields.
>
>
>??????????????veron
>??????????????veron_yang@263.net
?????????????????2002-01-16
No.

Physical position does not reflect reachability (which drives the 
logical topology in a network).  A trivial, but real world, example. 
If I have a node with an 802.11 interface and the guy 5 feet away 
from me has a node with an HF radio-WAN interface or a wired ethernet 
interface, we both have to find the nearest router to communicate 
with each other (ignoring the out of band 'Hey, Bub' externalities).

Further, GPS is far from a complete solution.  For example, it 
doesn't work indoors (1.6GHz line of sight propagation) and where it 
does work indoors it's getting reflections from somewhere -- 
multipath propagation is occasionally useful in comms, but it's 
ALWAYS BAD in radionav.

and

>
At 4:17 PM +0800 1/16/02, Marwaha Shivanajay wrote:
>I have come across a v. useful paper which shows that using GPS info, the
>route discovery flooding can be controlled in a given zone called the
>routing zone thereby not flooding the entire network. I think this was by
>Prof. Nitin Vaidya (most probably).

I'm sure this rests on the assumption that physical proximity and 
reachability are the same.  False assumption in real world.

>
>Other papers can also be found which use GPS info.  For military purposes
>not only GPS but also UAVs can be used for getting locaion info.
>
>But like military satellites that give v accurate location info, do
>commercial satellites also give reasonably accurate location?

There are satellite navigation systems that predate GPS but use 
exactly the same physics.  But they work on ranging from 
geosynchronous satellites that were placed in orbit for different 
purposes (comms).  These work fine in mid-latitudes, but are below 
the horizon at high latitudes and the geometric dilution of precision 
goes to Hell at low latitudes (translation: the geometry's bad).

>Also, I want to know whether it is cost affective and what is the coverage
>and availability aspect of GPS in non-military applications of MANETs.

Availability (Ao, as in uptime/total time) for GPS is about 99.8%. 
The remaining 0.2% falls into engineering problems (the satellite 
fails) and environmental ones (the sun spews out a bunch of junk that 
interrupts things).  This availability figure is about what we get 
out of Loran too, except all the failure modes are entirely different 
(no single points of failure between the two technologies).

But your question implies some broader issues:
   - integrity.  GPS, like all nav systems, has the ability to lie to 
you.  And unlike Loran, GPS has no built-in alarming system to tell 
the user it's on the fritz.  In the US maritime world, we sealed that 
up with differential GPS (I think Singapore has done the same).

   - the positioning error budget for GPS has 6 components in it:
      o ephemeris errors -- the satellites aren't quite at predicted positions
      o timing errors -- each satellite has a cesium, see the US Naval 
Observatory web page for the error measurements
      o selective availaibility  -- deliberate error introduced by the 
operators to degrade targeting.  Currently turned off.
      o ionospheric distortion
      o tropospheric distortion
      o receiver noise.

Differential GPS addresses the first five of these errors.  In the 
sixth, the largest component is usually multipath -- urban canyons 
and crowded parking lots are bad news for GPS.


>
>Regards,
>Shivanajay Marwaha
>-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~
>RS, ECE Dept., NUS.
>Singapore.
>http://www.nus.edu.sg/


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One thing this paper seems to suggest is that 802.11 does not handle scaling
well. The long delays in finding routes through larger networks described in
the paper, might have been the result of an overloaded channel. The delays
could have been a result of the MAC layer finding a crowded channel and
having to back off. I wonder what effect changing the MAC layer to something
which is designed to scale better would have.

-Luke Klein-Berndt


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[mailto:owner-manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil]On Behalf Of Phil Neumiller
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On demand ad hoc networks do not scale well according to the research at the
URL below.  Any comments on this work?

http://www.msiac.dmso.mil/journal/wong32.html

Thanks,

Phil




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hello,
i=B4m searching for a figure that describes the protocol stack (PHY, =
MAC, NETWORKLAYER (ARP, IP, RP), TRANSPORT LAYER) for ad hoc networks.
Has anybody seen or found a figure about it?

 Thankful for your help, Michael.


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Hello,

I have a list of comments from my modeling & simulation experience:

- Parameters in the ns-2 802.11 model set by default are based on a several
year ago WaveLAN card, which was made before the IEEE 802.11 standard.
Therefore, the channel frequency in ns-2 is set differently from the standard
(ns-2 802.11: 914 MHz, IEEE 802.11 DSSS PHY: 2.4 GHz) along with other PHY
parameters.

- The IEEE 802.11 DSSS PHY sets the PHY preamble and header size in
microseconds (192us; 802.11b has a short preamble option of 96us) while the
ns-2 802.11 does it in bits (192 bits). Compared to the MAC header size, the
PHY preamble is much longer and has significant impacts on the overall network
performance. When the data rate is set to 11Mbps in ns-2, the PHY preamble
size needs to be multiplied by 11 (or 5.5 assuming the short preamble option,
which seems common in real 802.11b implementations).

- The ns-2 802.11 model holds a power value of previously received packet, and
uses it as the baseline to determine successful reception of incoming packets.
This results in very optimistic simulation results as there is no
consideration of noise or accumulated interference from multiple neighbors,
particularly when there are several ongoing transmissions in the network. I
believe other simulators like QualNet, GloMoSim and OPNET consider noise and
accumulated interference for successful packet reception by calculating Signal
to Noise Ratio, or SNR.

- When the data rate of 11Mbps (with CCK modulation) is used, the required SNR
to achieve the same BER (Bit Error Rate) increases. This may result in smaller
communication range as Joe Macker says in presence of interference, but it may
not be true if the channel is in good condition. As ns-2 802.11 PHY model does
not simulate interference properly, it will be hard to observe real effects of
high data rate communication in ns-2. Just setting the data rate to 11Mbps
will give you even more optimistic simulation results!

Our recent publication (ftp://pcl.cs.ucla.edu/pub/papers/mobihoc.ps) includes
some simulation results from the comparison of ns-2 and GloMoSim, which may
help understand what I wrote here.

Mineo

Joe Macker wrote:
> 
> At 05:30 PM 1/16/2002 +0800, Li-Ping Tung wrote:
> >hello,
> >
> >In the ns-2 simulator with CMU wireless extension,
> >the document said that the implementation is based on IEEE 802.11.
> >It's clearly to know that the PHYSICAL layer is FHSS, but in this module,
> >the PHY layer is DSSS.
> 
> 802.11 Physical layers can be FHSS or DSSS.  Most manufacturers implement pure DSSS with alternate modulations (DPSK, DQPSK,etc) for achieving different signal rates (1,2, 5.5, 11 Mbps). So there is nothing wrong with DSSS at 2 Mbps as you seem to indicate. In fact, FHSS systems are less common in implementation.
> 
> It would be interested to have both modeled and to have the multi-rate feature.  If you are interested in 11 Mbps, you should be able to go into the ns2 code and make appropriate modifications to change the raw rate and to estimate achievable ranges (transmit range will be smaller), related parameters,etc at higher modem rates.  If you just want to look at 11mbps fixed rate this shouldn't be too hard, dynamic rate changes would be harder to model.
> 
> >We know that the PHY layer will infect the transmission rate like
> >IEEE 802.11   -> FHSS ->  2Mbps
> >IEEE 802.11b -> DSSS -> 11Mbps
> >So, why in the CMU wireless extension, the implementation is DSSS, but
> >the transmission rate is still limited in 2Mbps ?
> >In other way, can we change the rate to 11Mbps..
> >Please help  me to answer my questions.
> >
> >thanks.
> >
> >sincerely,
> >ice


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Hi all,
In the case of very highly mobile nodes, there is a
problem using TORA when a network partition happens.
For example, let's say a network partition happened
and one of the nodes lost its last downstream link and
it generated a new reference level. Under normal
conditions we are expecting that this reference level
will reflect and come back to the originator node of
this reference level that will detect the partition
and delete all the routes. However, after the last
reference level, there will be another node that will
loose the last downstream link due to a link failure
and that will generate another reference level. That's
because of highly mobility. In other words, in the
convergency time of detecting network partion, there
will be other nodes generating new reference levels.
Because of that, we can't detect network partion.
Do you know any solution to this problem?
Thank you
mustafa


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Hello,
I'm looking for any works, papers ... about security in ad hoc network.
Thanks
Erwan



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Hi Charlie,

"Charles E. Perkins" wrote: 
> This is a good idea.  Where can we find a list of the acceptable
> security terminology to incorporate into the terminology draft?

There are many such compilations in the web, e.g.:
http://www.securitypanel.org/glossary.html
http://www.certmag.com/issues/jul01/securityterms.cfm
http://www.setsolutions.com/security.htm

As MANET and Security is one of my focal points of interest, I would
gladly volunteer to compile such a security glossary. The important
point is how extensive such a glossary should be. Either we focus on
terms that are directly related to MANETs/Mobility or we try to compile
a glossary on everything that relates to security in general. I think
that only the first approach makes sense.

Ciao ... Frank

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Hi Erwan,

Here there is the Secure AODV draft I've wrote:

http://ant.eupvg.upc.es/~tarom/saodv.htm

BR/Manel Guerrero


ext Erwan ERMEL wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I'm looking for any works, papers ... about security in ad hoc network.
> Thanks
> Erwan


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Hi Erwan,

You may want to take a look at my "Subscriptionless Mobile Networking"
project (at www.nue.et-inf.uni-siegen.de/~schmidt/english/index.html),
in which I'm trying to address security, anonymity and privacy aspects
of ad-hoc networing, or better: Personal Area Networking (PAN).


Kind regards,

Michael


Erwan ERMEL wrote:

 > Hello,
 > I'm looking for any works, papers ... about security in ad hoc network.
 > Thanks
 > Erwan
 >
 >


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Hi,
Where can i get a figure about the protocol stack (e.g. data flow) with =
detailed information about the protocols like MAC-Layer , LL, ARP, =
Routing Protocol (AODV, DSR, ...), TCP, IP and others for mobile ad hoc =
networks?
The description in the chapter "Wireless Networking" of ns-2 =
documentation isnt=B4t really clear and detailed.

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At 12:02 PM 1/17/2002 +0100, Michael Sessinghaus wrote:
>Hi,
>Where can i get a figure about the protocol stack (e.g. data flow) with 
>detailed information about the protocols like MAC-Layer , LL, ARP, Routing 
>Protocol (AODV, DSR, ...), TCP, IP and others for mobile ad hoc networks?
>The description in the chapter "Wireless Networking" of ns-2 documentation 
>isntŽt really clear and detailed.

Well... I'm sure there are others, but you can review our Milcom'97 paper 
on "Wireless Internet Gateways -- WINGS" for a start.  It shows the WIRP 
routing protocol and FAMA mac proto, but others could be plugged in 
instead.  It's not much different than typical IP stacks, I believe...

The paper is also available at the CCRG web site --
         http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/ccrg/publications/chane.milcom97.ps.gz
or      http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/ccrg/publications/chane.milcom97.pdf

--chane





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Hi Erwan,

Here are a couple of our papers on the topic:

P.Papadimitratos and Z.J. Haas, "Secure Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc
Networks,"  SCS Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling
and Simulation Conference (CNDS 2002), San Antonio, TX, January 27-31,
2002. 

and an older one

L. Zhou and Z.J. Haas, "Securing Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Network Magazine,
vol. 13, no.6, November/December 1999 

You can download these papers from our lab's web page:
	http://wnl.ece.cornell.edu/wnlprojects.html

We are also in the process of completing another two papers on this topic
- you may want to check with us in few weeks for pre-prints.

Best,

Zygmunt.
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Erwan ERMEL wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm looking for any works, papers ... about security in ad hoc network.
> Thanks
> Erwan
> 




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Dear All,

On the topic of broadcasting/flooding, would one starting point not be for
the working group to work on a common document in order to address common
basic issues such as addressing, duplication detection, classical
flooding, etc? This document could also provide a general framework for
utilizing optimizations of the flooding mechanism, derived from the
various unicast protocols.

The WG could take the proposal from Perkins
(draft-ietf-manet-bcast-00.txt) as a starting point, and elaborate on some
ideas which may be able to incooporate various of the ideas floating
around.

Basically, the flooding mechanism proposed by Perkins goes as follows
(ignoring addressing issues etc. for now): when a packet is received, it
is forwarded under the condition that:

	1) the packet destination is ALL_IPv4_MANET_NODES (corr. for IPv6)

     	   AND

	2) the packet hasn't been received before (transmission duplicate
	   elimination)

The virtue of this approach is that no further information about the
network is required. Likewise, each node is relatively free to choose how
to make transmission duplicate elimination.

There have, however, been concerns about the fact that e.g. nodes "on the
edge" of the network would also retransmit a broadcast message, and that
this may be undesireable.

draft-ietf-manet-bcast-00.txt opens the possibility (in section 5) that
selective retransmissions are possible as a way for a node to modify the
conditions under which a packet is forwarded. This can easilly translate
into a third condition, in addition to the two above. Thus, when a packet
is received, it is forwarded under the condition that:

	1) the packet destination is ALL_IPv4_MANET_NODES

           AND

	2) the packet hasn't been received before

           AND

	3) there are no further constraints specifying that a packet
	   should not be forwarded.

This would be a very generic way of allowing different optimizations
(perhaps in the draft?) to be specified as constraints on the packet
forwarding.

As an _example_, if the unicast routing protocol OLSR
(draft-ietf-manet-olsr-05.txt) is in place in the network, the notion of
MPR's can be used to provide such a constraint in different ways. One
possible way would be to put the constraint that:

 "a node is allowed to forward a broadcast packet iff it has forwarded the
  last received TC-message from the node with the lowest IP-address in the
  network"

This would utilize the MPR-optimized flooding and provide a smaller number
of retransmissions in the network than that of "classical flooding"
(indeed, the nodes on the "edge" would not be forwarding broadcast
traffic).

I am sure, that there are ideas like that which would take advantage of
features of the other proposed unicast protocols in the wg, as well as
from other sources.

Any thoughts on this, anyone?

-- 

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  Thomas Heide Clausen
  Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
  M.Sc in Computer Engineering

  E-Mail: T.Clausen@computer.org
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Subject: New AODV Implementation from Uppsala University!
From: Erik =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordstr=F6m?= <erno3431@student.uu.se>
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AODV-UU Available!

We are happy to announce that version 0.1 of our AODV implementation for
Linux has been released today! Source code is available under the GPL
and can be retrieved from http://www.docs.uu.se/~henrikl/aodv/

Features:
* Runs on Linux 2.4.x kernels.
* Complies with AODV draft v.9.
* Implemented as a user-space daemon.
* Requires NO kernel modifications.
* Easy to compile, install and run.
* Optional uni-directional link detection and avoidance (Experimental
feature, not specified in the draft).

In addition we release "Mackill", a MAC-filter tool which makes it easy
to simulate connectivity configurations in real-world settings.

Any comments, suggestions or problem reports are appreciated!


Erik Nordström <erno3431@student.uu.se>
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Department of Computer Systems
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Hi Erwan,

We presented a work on Security-aware Routing protocol for Ad hoc networks
in last Mobihoc. The paper is available as a technical report at
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.uiuc_cs/UIUCDCS-R-2001-
2241

Please take a look.

Best regards,

- Seung


----- Original Message -----
From: "Erwan ERMEL" <erwan.ermel@lip6.fr>
To: <manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 7:11 PM
Subject: Security in ad hoc network


> Hello,
> I'm looking for any works, papers ... about security in ad hoc network.
> Thanks
> Erwan
>
>



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To Thomas, Charlie, and all:

Please see my comments below.

Thomas Clausen wrote:

<snip>

> draft-ietf-manet-bcast-00.txt opens the possibility (in section 5) that
> selective retransmissions are possible as a way for a node to modify the
> conditions under which a packet is forwarded. This can easilly translate
> into a third condition, in addition to the two above. Thus, when a packet
> is received, it is forwarded under the condition that:
> 
> 	1) the packet destination is ALL_IPv4_MANET_NODES
> 
>            AND
> 
> 	2) the packet hasn't been received before
> 
>            AND
> 
> 	3) there are no further constraints specifying that a packet
> 	   should not be forwarded.
> 
> This would be a very generic way of allowing different optimizations
> (perhaps in the draft?) to be specified as constraints on the packet
> forwarding.

We are considering a flooding mechanism that does not require duplicate detection, 
so condition (2) may be too restrictive.  (This mechanism is the third one
presented below.) I agree that it would be good to describe routing-protocol 
dependent flooding mechanisms in the general flooding draft, but some of those
mechanisms might not require condition (2).  Maybe we can discuss whether
condition (2) should be a requirement for all proposed flooding mechanisms.

> As an _example_, if the unicast routing protocol OLSR
> (draft-ietf-manet-olsr-05.txt) is in place in the network, the notion of
> MPR's can be used to provide such a constraint in different ways. One
> possible way would be to put the constraint that:
> 
>  "a node is allowed to forward a broadcast packet iff it has forwarded the
>   last received TC-message from the node with the lowest IP-address in the
>   network"

An equivalent constraint for TBRPF could be the following:

  "a node is allowed to forward a flooded packet only if the node with the
  smallest router ID in the network belongs to RN (the "reportable node set"
  computed by TBRPF)."

An alternative constraint is to use the source node of the packet instead
of the node with smallest RID:

  "a node is allowed to forward a flooded packet iff the source node for the 
  packet belongs to RN (the "reportable node set" computed by TBRPF)."

The above two constraints assume that duplicate detection is used.
Duplicate detection can be avoided if, in addition to the above 
constraint, a node is allowed to forward a flooded packet only if the 
neighbor from which it was received is the next hop for the route to the 
source of the packet.  

An advantage of avoiding duplicate detection is that there is no need to
remember the Flooded Packet Identifier (FPI) for packets already received, 
and for IPv6 there is no need for the Unique Identifier Destination option.
However, avoiding duplicate detection may reduce reliability, since a node
might not receive a flooded packet from the next hop neighbor due to collision, 
but might receive it from another neighbor.
We plan to evaluate the above three alternatives (and other alternatives)
before deciding the best way to do flooding.

One other point is do we really want to require the first constraint?

> 	1) the packet destination is ALL_IPv4_MANET_NODES

Since multicasting is not yet a WG work item, it is possible that we will
have a standard flooding mechanism before we have a standard multicast protocol.
In that case, it might be good to use a flooding mechanism to deliver packets
to other multicast groups.  In fact, if the multicast group includes almost
all MANET nodes, it might be more efficient to use flooding than to use
tree-based multicasting (to avoid the overhead for maintaining trees).

Regards,
Richard

-----------------------
Richard Ogier
Sr. Research Engineer
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Tel: 650-859-4216
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Email: ogier@erg.sri.com
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From: Ya Xu <yaxu@isi.edu>
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Hi,

I'd like to know if anybody implements wireless multipath fading effects
in simulator like ns.

thanks

-Ya



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Hello Richard,


ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:

> One other point is do we really want to require the first constraint?
>
> >       1) the packet destination is ALL_IPv4_MANET_NODES
>
> Since multicasting is not yet a WG work item, it is possible that we will
> have a standard flooding mechanism before we have a standard multicast protocol.
> In that case, it might be good to use a flooding mechanism to deliver packets
> to other multicast groups.  In fact, if the multicast group includes almost
> all MANET nodes, it might be more efficient to use flooding than to use
> tree-based multicasting (to avoid the overhead for maintaining trees).

Just because the destination is a multicast group, does not
mean that the delivery mechanism has to involve a multicast
tree.  In fact, I would say thta we should explicitly imagine
that the multicast address used for flooding would probably
not maintain a multicast tree.  There is no need to do so,
as far as I can tell.

Regards,
Charlie P.




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Hi Ya,

We implemented Rayleigh/Ricean fading models in GloMoSim, and published
their impacts on the performance of ad hoc routing protocols (AODV and
DSR) in the following paper (the same paper mentioned in my previous
message to this list):

Mineo Takai, Jay Martin and Rajive Bagrodia
"Effects of Wireless Physical Layer Modeling in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks"
Proceedings of MobiHoc 2001, October 2001
ftp://pcl.cs.ucla.edu/pub/papers/mobihoc.ps

The same fading models are also included in QualNet, the next generation
of GloMoSim. As cited in our paper, fading models similar to ours are
also available in ns-2, but I am not sure if fading effects can properly
be simulated in ns-2 due to no SNR / BER calculation made at the
physical layer. (Please read my previous message for more detailed
information.)

Regards,

Mineo

Ya Xu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to know if anybody implements wireless multipath fading effects
> in simulator like ns.
> 
> thanks
> 
> -Ya


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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:

> To Thomas, Charlie, and all:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Thus, when a packet
> > is received, it is forwarded under the condition that:
> >       1) the packet destination is ALL_IPv4_MANET_NODES
> >            AND
> >       2) the packet hasn't been received before
> >            AND
> >       3) there are no further constraints specifying that a packet
> >          should not be forwarded.                        
>
> We are considering a flooding mechanism that does not require
> duplicate detection, so condition (2) may be too restrictive.

agreed - control traffic diffusion (setting up a tree, or a unicast path,
for example) might benefit from duplicate detection, but actual data
forwarding, even when "flooded", can work in a different mode. LUNAR has
this distinction: data packets travel in separate and transients delivery
conduits, for unicast as well as for flooding.

christian.

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On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Scott Corson wrote:

<SNIP>
 
> What is the minimal specification required to design a best efforts manet
> flooding service? I think the addressing scheme needs agreement.  Anything
> else?
> 

Scott and others,

Isn't the addressing isue somewhat independant of the flooding issue? If a
mechanism is in place to perform "flooding" in general terms, then
addressing becomes just a way of deciding which traffic to flood?

As has been suggested before on the list, let's define some multicast
address, ALL_MANET_NODES, as the address of the group containing all
nodes in a given manet. Thus "flooding" is the objective that all
members in that ALL_MANET_NODES group recieve a given piece of data. (In
the same way, let's define an ALL_NEIGHBORS address such that a
packet transmitted will be received only by all nodes in the originators
neighborhood.) 

Thinking about a "manet" as a cloud of related nodes, in much the same way
as an Ethernet segment is, and (trying to) keep the spirit of the
definitions of RFC1812 in mind, I'd say that:

 	- the equivalent of the ALL_MANET_NODES is the limited
   	  broadcast address (255.255.255.255)

Now, RFC1812 also explicitly prohibits that any router forwards any packet
which have the destination address set to the limited broadcast address.
Thus to support existing applications which use broadcasts (e.g. service
discovery protocols), a MANET node could intercept transmissions
originated by itself and sent to the limited broadcast address somewhere
in the networking stack and rewrite the header to contain the destination
address ALL_MANET_NODES (i.e. convert a limited broadcast into a
"multicast" to ALL_MANET_NODES).

Thoughts, anyone?

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 Hi Mustafa,
  For any partition detection in a network, you need the 
"partition detection" messages starting from a node to reach the edge of
the network and return back to you. In this period, you need to have the
connectivity graph of your partition of the network to remain static.
  If the connectivity graph changes by the time the partition-detection
messages return back to the node that generated them, your network
dynamics are too fast for the partition detection mechanism.
  
  The same holds good for the 3 pass generation, propagation and
reflection mechanism in TORA.
 
    

> Hi all,
> In the case of very highly mobile nodes, there is a
> problem using TORA when a network partition happens.
> For example, let's say a network partition happened
> and one of the nodes lost its last downstream link and
> it generated a new reference level. Under normal
> conditions we are expecting that this reference level
> will reflect and come back to the originator node of
> this reference level that will detect the partition
> and delete all the routes. However, after the last
> reference level, there will be another node that will
> loose the last downstream link due to a link failure
> and that will generate another reference level. That's
> because of highly mobility. In other words, in the
> convergency time of detecting network partion, there
> will be other nodes generating new reference levels.
> Because of that, we can't detect network partion.
> Do you know any solution to this problem?
> Thank you
> mustafa
> 
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T.Clausen@computer.org wrote:

> Thinking about a "manet" as a cloud of related nodes, in much 
> the same way
> as an Ethernet segment is, and (trying to) keep the spirit of the
> definitions of RFC1812 in mind, I'd say that:
> 
>  	- the equivalent of the ALL_MANET_NODES is the limited
>    	  broadcast address (255.255.255.255)
> 
> Now, RFC1812 also explicitly prohibits that any router 
> forwards any packet
> which have the destination address set to the limited 
> broadcast address.

This is not a big deal, mostly philosophy, but I would have equated the "all
MANET nodes" multicast address to the "all routers" multicast address
(224.0.0.2), or perhaps even more precisely, "all RIP2 routers" multicast
(224.0.0.9). Seems to fit this description more perfectly?

> Thus to support existing applications which use broadcasts 
> (e.g. service
> discovery protocols), a MANET node could intercept transmissions
> originated by itself and sent to the limited broadcast 
> address somewhere
> in the networking stack and rewrite the header to contain the 
> destination
> address ALL_MANET_NODES (i.e. convert a limited broadcast into a
> "multicast" to ALL_MANET_NODES).

In my mind, the idea of the "all 1s" broadcast address is to keep that
broadcast inside the IP subnet only. The most obvious example of this being
ARP. Seems to me that in the spirit of IP, and RFC 1122, broadcasting to all
anything (all nodes, all hosts) in an internet is sort of verboten. We are
talking here about flooding information, for the purposes of route creation,
only to a set of manet routers. A good application for a well-known IP
multicast address?

Bert
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Charlie,

> 
> Hello Richard,
> 
> 
> ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:
> 
> > One other point is do we really want to require the first constraint?
> >
> > >       1) the packet destination is ALL_IPv4_MANET_NODES
> >
> > Since multicasting is not yet a WG work item, it is possible that we will
> > have a standard flooding mechanism before we have a standard multicast protocol.  
> > In that case, it might be good to use a flooding mechanism to deliver packets
> > to other multicast groups.  In fact, if the multicast group includes almost
> > all MANET nodes, it might be more efficient to use flooding than to use
> > tree-based multicasting (to avoid the overhead for maintaining trees).
> 
> Just because the destination is a multicast group, does not
> mean that the delivery mechanism has to involve a multicast
> tree.  In fact, I would say thta we should explicitly imagine
> that the multicast address used for flooding would probably
> not maintain a multicast tree.  There is no need to do so,
> as far as I can tell.

I agree.  But most of the multicast protocols proposed for
MANETs (including MAODV) create a tree regardless of the
multicast group, even if the group includes almost all
MANET nodes.  Currently, the assumption seems to be that a
*flooding* mechanism is used only for ALL_MANET_NODES, and that
a *multicast* protocol is needed for most other multicast addresses.
My main point is that it might be good to use a *flooding* mechanism to 
deliver packets to *other* multicast groups (not only to ALL_MANET_NODES)
especially if the group includes most (but not all) MANET nodes.   

I guess one answer is that the multicast protocol can decide
whether to simply use flooding (instead of creating a tree)
for a particular multicast group.  But if we have a standard flooding 
mechanism before we have a standard multicast protocol (for MANETs),
then we might want to allow the flooding mechanism to be used for
general multicasting.  

Regards,
Richard

P.S. Fred Templin and I previously proposed a method for flooding
packets having the limited broadcast address (255.255.255.255)
and low-numbered multicast addresses (224.0.0.x) to all MANET
nodes, by encapsulating into a packet having the ALL_MANET_NODES
address. (Search for message posted last March to May having
"MANET addressing" in the subject.) The above discussion does not 
include these addresses.


> 
> Regards,
> Charlie P.
> 
> 


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> On demand ad hoc networks do not scale well according to the 
> research at the 
> URL below.  Any comments on this work?

For starters...which on-demand protocol was considered?  Anyone know?

-Scott

> 
> http://www.msiac.dmso.mil/journal/wong32.html


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> mechanisms might not require condition (2).  Maybe we can 
> discuss whether
> condition (2) should be a requirement for all proposed 
> flooding mechanisms.

I agree that (2) is unnecessarily restrictive, and could be viewed as a
*constraint* within the flooding policy used in (3).

-Scott


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> P.S. Fred Templin and I previously proposed a method for flooding
> packets having the limited broadcast address (255.255.255.255)
> and low-numbered multicast addresses (224.0.0.x) to all MANET
> nodes, by encapsulating into a packet having the ALL_MANET_NODES
> address. (Search for message posted last March to May having
> "MANET addressing" in the subject.) The above discussion does not 
> include these addresses.

I went back and reread these conversations (mar/apr last year).  I think
that carrying multicast within this flooding capability could be a useful
near-term capability, and probably all that is needed for many small
networks.

Does anyone see problems with optionally flooding IP-in-IP-encapsulated
limited broadcast and multicast traffic in MANETs?  Using this approach I
assume a manet multicast sender has the option to encapsulate into this
"flooding tunnel" if you will.  Every stack that receives IP-in-IP sent to
the ALL_MANET_IPvX_NODES multicast address can decapsulate and process as
necessary, as well as forward the encapsulated packet as part of the
flooding algorithm as necessary.

Comments?

-Scott


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Scott,

> > P.S. Fred Templin and I previously proposed a method for flooding
> > packets having the limited broadcast address (255.255.255.255)
> > and low-numbered multicast addresses (224.0.0.x) to all MANET
> > nodes, by encapsulating into a packet having the ALL_MANET_NODES
> > address. (Search for message posted last March to May having
> > "MANET addressing" in the subject.) The above discussion does not 
> > include these addresses.
> 
> I went back and reread these conversations (mar/apr last year).  I think
> that carrying multicast within this flooding capability could be a useful
> near-term capability, and probably all that is needed for many small
> networks.
> 
> Does anyone see problems with optionally flooding IP-in-IP-encapsulated
> limited broadcast and multicast traffic in MANETs?  Using this approach I
> assume a manet multicast sender has the option to encapsulate into this
> "flooding tunnel" if you will.  Every stack that receives IP-in-IP sent to
> the ALL_MANET_IPvX_NODES multicast address can decapsulate and process as
> necessary, as well as forward the encapsulated packet as part of the
> flooding algorithm as necessary.

Yes, I agree that this encapsulation should be optional, and
is done *above* the MANET network layer.  It would be done by
an application that chooses to treat the MANET like an Ethernet.
(Some applications may not want to treat the MANET like an Ethernet.)
The MANET network layer should treat the limited broadcast address 
255.255.255.255 exactly as in RFC1812 (i.e., a packet with this address
should not be forwarded). For example, the MANET might *include* an 
actual Ethernet as one subnet, and 255.255.255.255 can be used by 
a MANET router to reach all other routers connected to that Ethernet,
or more generally to reach all neighboring routers.

Regards,
Richard

> 
> Comments?
> 
> -Scott


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Richard Ogier wrote:

> Yes, I agree that this encapsulation should be optional, and
> is done *above* the MANET network layer.  It would be done by
> an application that chooses to treat the MANET like an Ethernet.
> (Some applications may not want to treat the MANET like an Ethernet.)
> The MANET network layer should treat the limited broadcast address 
> 255.255.255.255 exactly as in RFC1812 (i.e., a packet with this address
> should not be forwarded). For example, the MANET might *include* an 
> actual Ethernet as one subnet, and 255.255.255.255 can be used by 
> a MANET router to reach all other routers connected to that Ethernet,
> or more generally to reach all neighboring routers.

We're basically digging up an old question here, however I hope it is
possible for the the WG to reach a concensus. The question is simply one
of how RFC1812 applies to a MANET.

Strictly speaking, according to RFC1812, the expectation of a limited
broadcast is for that to never be forwarded. I.e. in a MANET, a limited
broadcast should reach only the originating nodes neighbors.

However, speaking in terms of applications requirements, it seems to me
that the analogy of a manet on equal terms as an "Ethernet" may be more
appropriate, and hence a limited broadcast should reach all nodes in the
manet (but none beyond the manet). Think dhcp as a possible application in
this context: perhaps one node in the manet acts as dhcp-server, yet this
is not present in all nodes neighborhood.

Either way, I think this is basically a matter of which symbols to
associate with which semantics and mechanisms: it should definitely be
decided, but it should not influence the construction of a broadcast /
flooding protocol.

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> I have seen Charlie pull out the terminology draft at least a 
> few times! :-)  Why can't 
> some WG chair in SeaMoby or MANET adopt it as WG draft?

I cannot see this being a MANET draft, far too many non-MANET concepts
involved.

As far as Seamoby effectively bridging between MIP and MANET, it seems
reasonable.  IMO the best-baked architectural notion within Seamoby is the
notion of an AR, its discovery and possible subsequent CT between ARs.  The
AR stands at the edge of a domain, and mobile hosts (MIP) or routers (MANET
or MONET?) seeking access to the domain do so via an AR...the AR and
consequently Seamoby forms a natural bridge.

As for the terminology draft, if included in Seamoby, IMO it needs to be
simplified and clarified big time.  For example, it needs deletion of
irrelevant/unclear IP architectural elements (e.g. APs, ANs, ANRs, ANGs) and
all references thereto/implications thereof. 
* APs are layer 2 elements (need I say more?)
* Access Network Routers (ANR) are IP routers (presumably fixed)...Are these
notably different from non-access network routers?  Perhaps they run a
different routing algorithm, but what of it?  Perhaps they do not!
* Moreover, what is an Access Network?...the doc says it's an IP network
full of ANRs?  This is a bit circular!  If the ANRs are normal IP routers
(and they well could be), then the definition of the AN is completely and
suddenly vacuous...POOF!!! ;-)
* Access Network Gateway (ANG) is just another name for a gateway router.

To my way of thinking, at IP such an "access network" is just a routed
domain, accessed at the edge via access routers and interfaced to the core
thru some gateway router functionality.  No new terms are (yet) needed.  If
you think differently, either you have truly invented something new and I'd
love to hear about it, or you are probably too buried in L2 specifics to see
clearly. ;-)

My 2 cents...for starters, just delete the whole notion of an Access Network
until this can be meaningfully defined at IP layer and differentiated from
existing IP terminology.  Presently, whereever the text addresses the issue
of an "access network", the related definitions (e.g. relating to handoff)
break down as they implicitly assume certain L2 architectures and
capabilities.  These assumptions do not apply in the general case of IP
mobility or hold for all L2 technologies.  There's plenty more that could be
said as well.

But, without wasting more time, on the whole I think this document is mostly
a waste of time.  Whilst specific terminology drafts may be of value (such
as the recently suggested MIP/Security Terminology harmonization draft), IMO
these all-things-to-all-people drafts try to overreach and are generally not
worth bother.

-Scott


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> > mechanisms might not require condition (2).  Maybe we can 
> > discuss whether
> > condition (2) should be a requirement for all proposed 
> > flooding mechanisms.
>
> I agree that (2) is unnecessarily restrictive, and could be viewed as a
> *constraint* within the flooding policy used in (3).

I am not sure that (2) is entirely uncessary. The aim is basically to
avoid redundant retransmissions in order to save bandwidth. 

One proposed way of going about this is, as is suggested in
draft-ietf-manet-bcast-00.txt, to use some sort of duplicate table to
ensure that a given packet is not emitted more than once from a node.

Another proposal is to use previous-hop information and for a node to only
forward a packet if it is received from a node (previous hop) which is on
the shortest path to the originator of the packet.

I have concerns about the second proposal for two reasons. Firstly, it is
very "proactively oriented": it assumes that a given node has sufficient
information to be able to derive the shortest path to the source. This
approach would, therefore, be hard to apply in a broadcast protocol for
DSR and AODV and as such, it would be hard to arrive at one common MANET
flooding protocol. Secondly, getting the "previous hop" information is not
trivial. While it might be possible to realize (depending on the link
layer and os used) through looking at the hw-address and perform
arp-lookups, I would consider that it is preferable if a flooding protocol
does not depend on such 'hacks'.

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It seems like they used QualNet...and from the QualNet page they 
support: 
AODV Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector
BGP Border Gateway Protocol  
DSR... Dynamic Source Routing

(http://www.scalable-networks.com/products/QualNet/networkprotocolmodels.html)

So I'd guess they were studying simulation of AODV(I think...)
though why they dont just say that directly is strange...

Also, has anybody on this list worked with/evaluated QualNet??
(Is QualNet replacing OPNET as the Army/CECOM favorite?? :)

manish



On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Scott Corson wrote:

> 
> > On demand ad hoc networks do not scale well according to the 
> > research at the 
> > URL below.  Any comments on this work?
> 
> For starters...which on-demand protocol was considered?  Anyone know?
> 
> -Scott
> 
> > 
> > http://www.msiac.dmso.mil/journal/wong32.html
> 



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> I am not sure that (2) is entirely uncessary. The aim is basically to
> avoid redundant retransmissions in order to save bandwidth. 

I understand the motivation, but you are now partially defining a protocol
mechanism to achieve the desired aim of flooding.  HOW that is done should
be left to the protocol.  If this happens to be a characteristic of all
useful flooding algorithms, then that is fine.  But if there are useful
algorithms without this characteristic, why should they be prohibited?

-Scott


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I have been working with Dr. Bagrodia for several years, and have also
been using QualNet for my research at UCLA.  Although I was not involved
in that study, I saw his presentation on this a couple of times, and I
remember the study used AODV.

I think the emphasis of this study is the scalability of simulator,
rather than the scalability of AODV.  While the protocol itself can be
modified to support large scale networks, we cannot observe, analyze and
improve protocol behaviors in such large networks without an efficient
simulation tool.  That may be why the article does not explicitly state
the protocol used in the study (not to offend a specific protocol by
showing rather negative results for its scalability.)

The study explored large parameter space involving over 1,000 simulation
runs, and if I recall his presentation, the entire set of experiments
completed in less than a week.  I do not even try to create 10,000 nodes
in ns-2 or OPNET :-)

Mineo

Manish Karir wrote:
> 
> It seems like they used QualNet...and from the QualNet page they
> support:
> AODV Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector
> BGP Border Gateway Protocol
> DSR... Dynamic Source Routing
> 
> (http://www.scalable-networks.com/products/QualNet/networkprotocolmodels.html)
> 
> So I'd guess they were studying simulation of AODV(I think...)
> though why they dont just say that directly is strange...
> 
> Also, has anybody on this list worked with/evaluated QualNet??
> (Is QualNet replacing OPNET as the Army/CECOM favorite?? :)
> 
> manish
> 
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Scott Corson wrote:
> 
> >
> > > On demand ad hoc networks do not scale well according to the
> > > research at the
> > > URL below.  Any comments on this work?
> >
> > For starters...which on-demand protocol was considered?  Anyone know?
> >
> > -Scott
> >
> > >
> > > http://www.msiac.dmso.mil/journal/wong32.html


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T.Clausen@computer.org wrote:

> We're basically digging up an old question here, however I hope it is
> possible for the the WG to reach a concensus. The question is 
> simply one
> of how RFC1812 applies to a MANET.
> 
> Strictly speaking, according to RFC1812, the expectation of a limited
> broadcast is for that to never be forwarded. I.e. in a MANET, 
> a limited
> broadcast should reach only the originating nodes neighbors.
> 
> However, speaking in terms of applications requirements, it 
> seems to me
> that the analogy of a manet on equal terms as an "Ethernet" 
> may be more
> appropriate, and hence a limited broadcast should reach all 
> nodes in the
> manet (but none beyond the manet). Think dhcp as a possible 
> application in
> this context: perhaps one node in the manet acts as 
> dhcp-server, yet this
> is not present in all nodes neighborhood.

I agree with the DHCP example, which is in fact a bit of a kludge (when the
DHCP server is not a member of the local IP subnet), but I don't agree with
the analogy that a MANET could be considered as one single Ethernet. In my
view, the whole point of MANET is that it goes beyond the single subnet or
LAN.

> Either way, I think this is basically a matter of which symbols to
> associate with which semantics and mechanisms: it should definitely be
> decided, but it should not influence the construction of a broadcast /
> flooding protocol.

Why no play it safe and use a well-known multicast address? Actually, there
is 224.0.0.11 for "mobile agents." Perhaps something called "ad-hoc agents"
could be added to the list?

Bert
albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com


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Please see my comments below.

> Richard Ogier wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I agree that this encapsulation should be optional, and
> > is done *above* the MANET network layer.  It would be done by
> > an application that chooses to treat the MANET like an Ethernet.
> > (Some applications may not want to treat the MANET like an Ethernet.)
> > The MANET network layer should treat the limited broadcast address 
> > 255.255.255.255 exactly as in RFC1812 (i.e., a packet with this address
> > should not be forwarded). For example, the MANET might *include* an 
> > actual Ethernet as one subnet, and 255.255.255.255 can be used by 
> > a MANET router to reach all other routers connected to that Ethernet,
> > or more generally to reach all neighboring routers.

Thomas Clausen wrote:

> We're basically digging up an old question here, however I hope it is
> possible for the the WG to reach a concensus. The question is simply one
> of how RFC1812 applies to a MANET.
> 
> Strictly speaking, according to RFC1812, the expectation of a limited
> broadcast is for that to never be forwarded. I.e. in a MANET, a limited
> broadcast should reach only the originating nodes neighbors.
> 
> However, speaking in terms of applications requirements, it seems to me
> that the analogy of a manet on equal terms as an "Ethernet" may be more
> appropriate, and hence a limited broadcast should reach all nodes in the
> manet (but none beyond the manet). Think dhcp as a possible application in
> this context: perhaps one node in the manet acts as dhcp-server, yet this
> is not present in all nodes neighborhood.

I think we should adhere to RFC1812 if at all possible, and it is possible
simply by letting the encapsulation be optional.
Saying that an application MUST treat a MANET like an Ethernet is like saying
that an application MUST treat an ATM network like an IP subnet (using IP 
over ATM).  A MANET network does not need to be treated like an Ethernet by 
everyone, just like an ATM network need not be treated like an IP subnet.

Since Fred Baker is the editor of RFC1812, I would like to hear his opinion.

Regards,
Richard

> 
> Either way, I think this is basically a matter of which symbols to
> associate with which semantics and mechanisms: it should definitely be
> decided, but it should not influence the construction of a broadcast /
> flooding protocol.
> 
> -- 
> 
> -------------------------------------------
>   Thomas Heide Clausen
>   Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
>   M.Sc in Computer Engineering
> 
>   E-Mail: T.Clausen@computer.org
>   WWW:    http://www.cs.auc.dk/~voop
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 


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At 12:29 PM 1/21/2002, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:
> > Strictly speaking, according to RFC1812, the expectation of a limited
> > broadcast is for that to never be forwarded. I.e. in a MANET, a limited
> > broadcast should reach only the originating nodes neighbors.

> > However, speaking in terms of applications requirements, it seems to me
> > that the analogy of a manet on equal terms as an "Ethernet" may be more
> > appropriate, and hence a limited broadcast should reach all nodes in the
> > manet (but none beyond the manet). Think dhcp as a possible application in
> > this context: perhaps one node in the manet acts as dhcp-server, yet this
> > is not present in all nodes neighborhood.
>
>I think we should adhere to RFC1812 if at all possible, and it is possible
>simply by letting the encapsulation be optional.
>Saying that an application MUST treat a MANET like an Ethernet is like saying
>that an application MUST treat an ATM network like an IP subnet (using IP
>over ATM).  A MANET network does not need to be treated like an Ethernet by
>everyone, just like an ATM network need not be treated like an IP subnet.
>
>Since Fred Baker is the editor of RFC1812, I would like to hear his opinion.

I agree. It seems, as I read through the protocols, like there is use for 
something which reaches the immediate neighbors only (such as in "hello" 
functionality) and for something which will proceed some number of hops 
away, usually limited by TTL. It seems to me most consistent if one defines 
local broadcast as reaching exactly those systems whose radios (or 
whatever) can "hear" the original transmission, and no other. If you want 
to provide a particular multicast address which uses some form of RPF 
forwarding up to some distance, you should define that address separately, 
and you should specify exactly what you want the routers to do with the 
packets - repeat on all interfaces (AODV), all interfaces except the 
arrival interface (OLSR), or on an RPF tree away from the source (TBRPF). 
To my mind, those are three different algorithms, and should be specified 
separately.

As to how to specify those routes, I have to say that I (as a router 
vendor) don't particularly want to clutter my routing protocol with 
executing a route selection algorithm based on the arriving destination 
address. I would like to, instead, assume that any non-local addresses will 
simply find an address in a table which I look up using the source and 
destination addresses and perhaps the arrival interface. So I tend to think 
that (as RSVP does) the routing application should receive these multicasts 
and repeat them, rather than asking IP to do that. 



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At 02:27 PM 1/21/2002, Fred Baker wrote:
>As to how to specify those routes, I have to say that I (as a router 
>vendor) don't particularly want to clutter my routing protocol with 
>executing a route selection algorithm based on the arriving destination 
>address.

I mis-spoke. A routing protocol calculates routes; IP forwards using that 
table. I should have said that I don't want to clutter my IP implementation 
with

              if (destination_address == this) { use this route }
         else if (destination_address == that) { use that route }
         else ...
         else { do the normal route lookup to determine what to use }

when some form of standard route lookup does the job.

>I would like to, instead, assume that any non-local addresses will simply 
>find an address in a table which I look up using the source and 
>destination addresses and perhaps the arrival interface. So I tend to 
>think that (as RSVP does) the routing application should receive these 
>multicasts and repeat them, rather than asking IP to do that.




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Thomas,

>   1) the packet destination is ALL_IPv4_MANET_NODES 
>
>   AND 
>
>   2) the packet hasn't been received before 
>
>   AND 
>
>   3) there are no further constraints specifying that a packet should not be forwarded.

I wrote:

> > > some of those mechanisms might not require condition (2).  Maybe we can 
> > > discuss whether condition (2) should be a requirement for all proposed 
> > > flooding mechanisms.

Scott wrote:

> > I agree that (2) is unnecessarily restrictive, and could be viewed as a
> > *constraint* within the flooding policy used in (3).

Thomas wrote:

> I am not sure that (2) is entirely uncessary. The aim is basically to
> avoid redundant retransmissions in order to save bandwidth. 
> 
> One proposed way of going about this is, as is suggested in
> draft-ietf-manet-bcast-00.txt, to use some sort of duplicate table to
> ensure that a given packet is not emitted more than once from a node.
> 
> Another proposal is to use previous-hop information and for a node to only
> forward a packet if it is received from a node (previous hop) which is on
> the shortest path to the originator of the packet.
> 
> I have concerns about the second proposal for two reasons. Firstly, it is
> very "proactively oriented": it assumes that a given node has sufficient
> information to be able to derive the shortest path to the source. This
> approach would, therefore, be hard to apply in a broadcast protocol for
> DSR and AODV and as such, it would be hard to arrive at one common MANET
> flooding protocol. Secondly, getting the "previous hop" information is not
> trivial. While it might be possible to realize (depending on the link
> layer and os used) through looking at the hw-address and perform
> arp-lookups, I would consider that it is preferable if a flooding protocol
> does not depend on such 'hacks'.

I agree with your second point, although I think the "hack" would be simple 
and useful.  Another argument against the second proposal is that it is probably 
not as reliable (as I mentioned before), since it requires that the flooded 
packet be received from a particular neighbor.
So I agree with you that the first proposal is *probably* better.

But I also agree with Scott that we should not prohibit protocols that
do not have this characteristic, so I would not want to rule out the second 
method (and other methods) before I am sure that the first method is better.

Also, we are not really talking about a *single* common MANET flooding protocol,
but a class of protocols, since condition (3) depends on the routing protocol.
So we could simply expand this class by letting condition (2) also depend on 
the routing protocol. However, this will probably not be necessary since we 
agree that the first method is probably better.

Regards,
Richard

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Sr. Research Engineer
SRI International
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Hello, Mineo :

So if I want to use ns-2 simulator with 11 Mbps, should I change any ns-2
source source, or that I just set the parameter to let the transmission rate
to become 11 Mbps ?

Li-Ping

> Hello,
>
> I have a list of comments from my modeling & simulation experience:
>
> - Parameters in the ns-2 802.11 model set by default are based on a
several
> year ago WaveLAN card, which was made before the IEEE 802.11 standard.
> Therefore, the channel frequency in ns-2 is set differently from the
standard
> (ns-2 802.11: 914 MHz, IEEE 802.11 DSSS PHY: 2.4 GHz) along with other PHY
> parameters.
>
> - The IEEE 802.11 DSSS PHY sets the PHY preamble and header size in
> microseconds (192us; 802.11b has a short preamble option of 96us) while
the
> ns-2 802.11 does it in bits (192 bits). Compared to the MAC header size,
the
> PHY preamble is much longer and has significant impacts on the overall
network
> performance. When the data rate is set to 11Mbps in ns-2, the PHY preamble
> size needs to be multiplied by 11 (or 5.5 assuming the short preamble
option,
> which seems common in real 802.11b implementations).
>
> - The ns-2 802.11 model holds a power value of previously received packet,
and
> uses it as the baseline to determine successful reception of incoming
packets.
> This results in very optimistic simulation results as there is no
> consideration of noise or accumulated interference from multiple
neighbors,
> particularly when there are several ongoing transmissions in the network.
I
> believe other simulators like QualNet, GloMoSim and OPNET consider noise
and
> accumulated interference for successful packet reception by calculating
Signal
> to Noise Ratio, or SNR.
>
> - When the data rate of 11Mbps (with CCK modulation) is used, the required
SNR
> to achieve the same BER (Bit Error Rate) increases. This may result in
smaller
> communication range as Joe Macker says in presence of interference, but it
may
> not be true if the channel is in good condition. As ns-2 802.11 PHY model
does
> not simulate interference properly, it will be hard to observe real
effects of
> high data rate communication in ns-2. Just setting the data rate to 11Mbps
> will give you even more optimistic simulation results!
>
> Our recent publication (ftp://pcl.cs.ucla.edu/pub/papers/mobihoc.ps)
includes
> some simulation results from the comparison of ns-2 and GloMoSim, which
may
> help understand what I wrote here.
>
> Mineo
>





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At 12:29 PM 1/21/2002 -0800, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:

>Please see my comments below.
>
>> Richard Ogier wrote:
>> 
>> > Yes, I agree that this encapsulation should be optional, and
>> > is done *above* the MANET network layer.  It would be done by
>> > an application that chooses to treat the MANET like an Ethernet.
>> > (Some applications may not want to treat the MANET like an Ethernet.)
>> > The MANET network layer should treat the limited broadcast address 
>> > 255.255.255.255 exactly as in RFC1812 (i.e., a packet with this address
>> > should not be forwarded). For example, the MANET might *include* an 
>> > actual Ethernet as one subnet, and 255.255.255.255 can be used by 
>> > a MANET router to reach all other routers connected to that Ethernet,
>> > or more generally to reach all neighboring routers.
>
>Thomas Clausen wrote:
>
>> We're basically digging up an old question here, however I hope it is
>> possible for the the WG to reach a concensus. The question is simply one
>> of how RFC1812 applies to a MANET.
>> 
>> Strictly speaking, according to RFC1812, the expectation of a limited
>> broadcast is for that to never be forwarded. I.e. in a MANET, a limited
>> broadcast should reach only the originating nodes neighbors.
>> 
>> However, speaking in terms of applications requirements, it seems to me
>> that the analogy of a manet on equal terms as an "Ethernet" may be more
>> appropriate, and hence a limited broadcast should reach all nodes in the
>> manet (but none beyond the manet). Think dhcp as a possible application in
>> this context: perhaps one node in the manet acts as dhcp-server, yet this
>> is not present in all nodes neighborhood.
>
>I think we should adhere to RFC1812 if at all possible, and it is possible
>simply by letting the encapsulation be optional.

Agreed with the desire to adhere to RFC1812..  As an aside, I think we should apply a well-known local multicast address space (224.0.0.x) for the purposes of flooding routing control data e.g, (ALL_MANET_NEIGHBORS or ALL_PROTOCOLNAME_NEIGHBORS..more specific to particular protocol).  The routing protocol floods its control data internally using these defined locally scoped multicast addresses.  This is consistent with present practice (e.g., OSPF,etc).  

Whether we define or use a generic mechanism for data flooding is another issue and I feel another address space?

>Saying that an application MUST treat a MANET like an Ethernet is like saying
>that an application MUST treat an ATM network like an IP subnet (using IP 
>over ATM).  A MANET network does not need to be treated like an Ethernet by 
>everyone, just like an ATM network need not be treated like an IP subnet.
>
>Since Fred Baker is the editor of RFC1812, I would like to hear his opinion.
>
>Regards,
>Richard
>
>> 
>> Either way, I think this is basically a matter of which symbols to
>> associate with which semantics and mechanisms: it should definitely be
>> decided, but it should not influence the construction of a broadcast /
>> flooding protocol.
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------
>>   Thomas Heide Clausen
>>   Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
>>   M.Sc in Computer Engineering
>> 
>>   E-Mail: T.Clausen@computer.org
>>   WWW:    http://www.cs.auc.dk/~voop
>> -------------------------------------------
>> 
>> 
>> 




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Fred,

Thanks for your input. It looks like we are close to
reaching a consensus on this issue.

> and you should specify exactly what you want the routers to do with the 
> packets - repeat on all interfaces (AODV), all interfaces except the 
> arrival interface (OLSR), or on an RPF tree away from the source (TBRPF). 

I just want to clarify that TBRPF flooding is not tree-based.
It can be considered to be a variation of RPF (as I mentioned before), 
but to reduce message overhead it does not maintain full broadcast trees. 
Thus, the number of transmissions required to flood a packet to all nodes 
is somewhere between that of classical flooding and tree-based RPF.  
(The same is true for OLSR flooding.)

Regards,
Richard




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Thomas,
 
> Another proposal is to use previous-hop information and for a node to only
> forward a packet if it is received from a node (previous hop) which is on
> the shortest path to the originator of the packet.

We have been experimenting with this method for some time, but in a way that
coexists with multicast protocols for broadcast media and MANET protocols that
require duplicate checks. Consider that multicast forward cache entries in
reference implementations such as the Linux kernel check received packets
based on tuples of the form:

  (source, group, interface)

This check is sufficient to reject duplicates on broadcast media
(e.g. Ethernet) since multicast routing protocols enforce a single active
parent for (source, group) on a paticular broadcast interface. But, the
check is insufficient for multi-hop media (e.g. MANETs).

We propose a simple extension to the API and a new element to multicast
forward cache entries to provide tuples of the following form:

  (source, group, interface, parent)

and specify the following behavior based on 'parent':

  - when parent = 0.0.0.0, behavior is exactly as in current
    reference implementations

  - when parent = 255.255.255.255, duplicate detection is performed
    (i.e., received packets are checked against a duplicate cache)

  - any other value for parent is interpreted as the IPv4 address
    of the previous hop from which the packet MUST originate 

Thus, this simple extension to the API and multicast forwarding cache
entry supports legacy behavior for broadcast media, duplicate table
checks for protocols that require such, and duplicate check avoidance
for protocols that choose to use that function. (All three functions
are supported simultaneously within the same multicast forwarding cache.)

> I have concerns about the second proposal for two reasons. Firstly, it is
> very "proactively oriented": it assumes that a given node has sufficient
> information to be able to derive the shortest path to the source. This
> approach would, therefore, be hard to apply in a broadcast protocol for
> DSR and AODV and as such, it would be hard to arrive at one common MANET
> flooding protocol.

I believe this concern is alleviated by the above specification.

> Secondly, getting the "previous hop" information is not
> trivial. While it might be possible to realize (depending on the link
> layer and os used) through looking at the hw-address and perform
> arp-lookups, I would consider that it is preferable if a flooding protocol
> does not depend on such 'hacks'.

Getting the previous hop requires a simple lookup in the neighbor cache.
In Linux, this can be done using the same mechanisms employed for sending
redirects, so there is existing precedent, i.e. it is not a hack. Duplicate
check avoidance can provide benefits for performance and reducing the amount
of multicast forwarding cache state required. The fact that it can coexist
seamlessly with other approaches seems to argue in favor of further
consideration. (Note that we are not committing to adopt the duplicate check
avoidance approach at this time, but are conducting further investigation.)

Fred
templin@erg.sri.com


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Hi Li-Ping,

If you use ns-2 and set 11 Mbps as the data rate, I would recommend the
following changes to the ns-2 802.11 PHY source:

(1) Change the transmission duration of PHY preamble and header to 96us
(or 192us).

(2) Set PHY parameters (carrier frequency, tx power, cs sensitivity etc.)
based on the IEEE 802.11 standard and one of its implementations.

(3) Implement a model that calculates BER based on instantaneous SNR and
CCK (complementary code keying) modem performance, and use it instead of
the capture threshold to determine successful frame reception.

These changes should make the ns-2 802.11 PHY model much better. Please
note that doing (3) requires rather extensive effort, so you might want
to ask for volunteers on the ns-2 user mailing list. (Sorry, I am not an
active ns-2 user!) Other simulators such as GloMoSim, QualNet and OPNET
already have a frame reception model similar to (3).

Mineo

Li-Ping Tung wrote:
> 
> Hello, Mineo :
> 
> So if I want to use ns-2 simulator with 11 Mbps, should I change any ns-2
> source source, or that I just set the parameter to let the transmission rate
> to become 11 Mbps ?
> 
> Li-Ping
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a list of comments from my modeling & simulation experience:
> >
> > - Parameters in the ns-2 802.11 model set by default are based on a several
> > year ago WaveLAN card, which was made before the IEEE 802.11 standard.
> > Therefore, the channel frequency in ns-2 is set differently from the standard
> > (ns-2 802.11: 914 MHz, IEEE 802.11 DSSS PHY: 2.4 GHz) along with other PHY
> > parameters.
> >
> > - The IEEE 802.11 DSSS PHY sets the PHY preamble and header size in
> > microseconds (192us; 802.11b has a short preamble option of 96us) while the
> > ns-2 802.11 does it in bits (192 bits). Compared to the MAC header size, the
> > PHY preamble is much longer and has significant impacts on the overall network
> > performance. When the data rate is set to 11Mbps in ns-2, the PHY preamble
> > size needs to be multiplied by 11 (or 5.5 assuming the short preamble option,
> > which seems common in real 802.11b implementations).
> >
> > - The ns-2 802.11 model holds a power value of previously received packet, and
> > uses it as the baseline to determine successful reception of incoming packets.
> > This results in very optimistic simulation results as there is no
> > consideration of noise or accumulated interference from multiple neighbors,
> > particularly when there are several ongoing transmissions in the network.  I
> > believe other simulators like QualNet, GloMoSim and OPNET consider noise and
> > accumulated interference for successful packet reception by calculating Signal
> > to Noise Ratio, or SNR.
> >
> > - When the data rate of 11Mbps (with CCK modulation) is used, the required SNR
> > to achieve the same BER (Bit Error Rate) increases. This may result in smaller
> > communication range as Joe Macker says in presence of interference, but it may
> > not be true if the channel is in good condition. As ns-2 802.11 PHY model does
> > not simulate interference properly, it will be hard to observe real effects of
> > high data rate communication in ns-2. Just setting the data rate to 11Mbps
> > will give you even more optimistic simulation results!
> >
> > Our recent publication (ftp://pcl.cs.ucla.edu/pub/papers/mobihoc.ps) includes
> > some simulation results from the comparison of ns-2 and GloMoSim, which may
> > help understand what I wrote here.
> >
> > Mineo
> >
--
Mineo Takai, Ph.D.
Principal Development Engineer
UCLA Computer Science Department


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----- Original Message -----
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> Thomas,
>
> Getting the previous hop requires a simple lookup in the neighbor cache.
> In Linux, this can be done using the same mechanisms employed for sending
> redirects, so there is existing precedent, i.e. it is not a hack.
Duplicate
> check avoidance can provide benefits for performance and reducing the
amount
> of multicast forwarding cache state required. The fact that it can coexist
> seamlessly with other approaches seems to argue in favor of further
> consideration. (Note that we are not committing to adopt the duplicate
check
> avoidance approach at this time, but are conducting further
investigation.)
>

Is neighbor cache not built only from ARP packets? Broadcast (multicast)
packets are not caught. How can you get the last hop IP addresses of a
broadcast packet this way?

Philippe



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Hi,

Can someone refer me models for energy consumption calculation in ad hoc 
networks? I wonder what is a good assumption to evaluate the total energy 
consumption. Thanks.

Wenjing
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----- Original Message -----
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> I agree. It seems, as I read through the protocols, like there is use for
> something which reaches the immediate neighbors only (such as in "hello"
> functionality) and for something which will proceed some number of hops
> away, usually limited by TTL. It seems to me most consistent if one
defines
> local broadcast as reaching exactly those systems whose radios (or
> whatever) can "hear" the original transmission, and no other. If you want
> to provide a particular multicast address which uses some form of RPF
> forwarding up to some distance, you should define that address separately,
> and you should specify exactly what you want the routers to do with the
> packets - repeat on all interfaces (AODV), all interfaces except the
> arrival interface (OLSR), or on an RPF tree away from the source (TBRPF).
> To my mind, those are three different algorithms, and should be specified
> separately.
>
Yes, each protocol has its own way for flooding control traffic. It is clear
that the data can be flooded the same way, but in this case the flooding
would be routing protocol dependent. I know that in DSR broadcast data are
encapsulated in Route Request message. In OLSR the generic broadcast control
traffic format can be used as well.

The question is: is it possible to do with broadcast data the same way as we
did with unicast data, namely to let the IP-stack to do the forwarding alone
and to restrict the routing application to generate routing tables? If the
answer is yes, it is probably worthy to define a common framework for this
forwarding extension. If the answer is no, I agree, the broadcast forwarding
could be just an extension of the unicast routing protocol.

Philippe




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Phillipe,

> Is neighbor cache not built only from ARP packets? Broadcast (multicast)
> packets are not caught. How can you get the last hop IP addresses of a
> broadcast packet this way?

There will NEVER be a case of consulting the neighbor cache for a
broadcast/multicast address. The following clarifications to my
previous message should aid in understanding:

> and specify the following behavior based on 'parent':
> 
>   - when parent = 0.0.0.0, behavior is exactly as in current
>     reference implementations
> 
>   - when parent = 255.255.255.255, duplicate detection is performed
>     (i.e., received packets are checked against a duplicate cache)

When parent = 0.0.0.0 (respectively, 255.255.255.255), previous-hop
verification is NOT performed; instead, these values for parent
indicate to the kernel multicast forwarding cache that no checks
(respectively, duplicate packet checks) are used for received
packets for this particular cache entry.

>   - any other value for parent is interpreted as the IPv4 address
>     of the previous hop from which the packet MUST originate

Only IPv4 *unicast* addresses are accepted for 'parent' by the API
that creates multicast forwarding cache entries. The following note
should be added to the above:

      (Note: implementations MUST verify that 'parent' encodes an
       IPv4 unicast address when the multicast forwarding cache entry
       is created)

Finally, the algorithm for previous-hop verification when 'parent'
encodes an IPv4 unicast address is as follows:

 - Compare the MAC (layer-2) source address of the received packet with
   the MAC address resolution for 'parent'. If the two addresses match,
   ACCEPT the packet; else, REJECT

Fred
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Phillipe,

> Is neighbor cache not built only from ARP packets? Broadcast (multicast)
> packets are not caught. How can you get the last hop IP addresses of a
> broadcast packet this way?

It's possible I may have mis-interpreted your concern; are you asking about
the case when a node receives only broadcast/multicast (and not unicast)
packets from a particular previous hop? In that case, you are right that
there may be no pre-existing neighbor cache entry for the previous hop.
The receiving node corrects this by issuing an on-demand neighbor
resolution for the previous hop's IPv4 address (in this case, by
sendig an  'ARPOP_REQUEST'). Muticast packets received while the resolution
is in-progress are temporarily cached by the node in the same manner as when
a multicast forwarding cache entry for (source, group, interface) does not
yet exist in the current model.

Note that, if the node is performing explicit neighbor cache management
based on received neighbor discovery messages, the neighbor cache entry
may be maintained proactively, rather than on-demand based on unicast
packet arrivals; thus avoiding the above scenario. We believe proactive
neighbor cache mangement (when possible) can provide the important
benefit of increasing packet delivery ratio; the above scenario is
just one example where this is true.

Fred
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At 08:44 AM 1/23/2002, Philippe Jacquet wrote:
>The question is: is it possible to do with broadcast data the same way as we
>did with unicast data, namely to let the IP-stack to do the forwarding alone
>and to restrict the routing application to generate routing tables?

the problem I come up with is this. Most, perhaps all, of these broadcast 
approaches do not simply say "I received a message on {S,G}, send it to 
this set of interfaces". They say "if my router id or address is not in 
this list..." or "if the message is not in my cache of recently 
retransmitted broadcasts..." or something else.

The IP code wants to be fairly generic; if you have a manet interface and a 
wired interface, there is no reason for the wired interface to have a 
different IP forwarder than yours. If you assume it is designed with a set 
of "adjacencies" which might constitute individual IP routing or ARP 
neighbors, and one of which is "myself" (the "send" routine delivers the 
message upstairs rather than sending it somewhere else), and any given 
route therefore results in a list of zero or more adjacencies to which or 
among which the message is to be forwarded, it wants to look something like 
this (yes I left out the MTU test and all option processing):

ip_forwarding (message *datagram, ip_hdr *ip_header)
{
     if (!verify_checksum (ip_header))
         fail ();
     route = route_lookup (ip_header->ip_destination);
     if (!route)
         fail ();
     if (ip_header->destination is not a class D address)
     {
         adjacency = one_of_the_adjacencies (route->adjacencies);
         interface = adjacency->interface;
         if (interface->ttl_check)
         {       /* we don't decrement TTL when delivering upstairs */
             if (ip_header->ttl <= 1)
                 fail ();
             ip_header->ipttl--;
             ip->checksum = update_ip_checksum (ip->checksum, 0x0100);
         }
         interface->forward_message (datagram, interface,
                                     adjacency->linkheader);
     } else {
         for (adjacency = route->adjacencies; adjacency;
                   adjacency = adjacency->next)
         {
             interface = adjacency->interface;
             if (interface->ttl_check)
             {   /* we don't decrement TTL when delivering upstairs */
                 if (ip_header->ttl <= 1)
                     fail ();
                 ip_header->ipttl--;
                 ip->checksum = update_ip_checksum (ip->checksum, 0x0100);
             }
             if (adjacency->next)
             {
                 make a copy of the message for forwarding purposes;
             }
             interface->forward_message (copy of datagram,
                                         interface,
                                         adjacency->mcastlinkheader);
         }
     }
}

What you're asking for is some form if "if it's going to go out on this 
interface, can we first ask if we think that it should?", and I think 
you're asking for something fairly specific to the address proposed. That 
could be achieved with an API pointer in the interface table that is used 
only in the multicast case:

         if (interface->forwarding_test) {
             if (*(interface->forwarding_test(ip_header, interface)))
                 continue;
         }

placed just before the TTL game in the multicast case. The problem you will 
get into is making it generic to the wired world, which has no such 
problem, and defining one forwarding test for any kind of interface.

Personally, I'd be just as happy to let the routing application handle this 
rather than add to the IP code path.



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Hi, Wenjing

If you want to caclulate energy consumption in IP layer,
you can refer to this site http://vega.icu.ac.kr/~ppl/pub.html

Refer to 'Non-Blocking, Localized Routing Algorithm for Balanced Energy Consumption in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks'
in conference papers.

Ekyu

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> Hi,
> 
> Can someone refer me models for energy consumption calculation in ad hoc 
> networks? I wonder what is a good assumption to evaluate the total energy 
> consumption. Thanks.
> 
> Wenjing
> -------------------
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Hi,

You can refer to my work i just on energy complexity. you can find my
paper at my website

http://www.utdallas.edu/~rajesh/resume/

In this paper, I presented an analytical way to compute minimum energy
consumption of an ad hoc network protocol.


Rajesh

===============================================================================

Rajesh Bhairampally
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Scalable Network Engineering Techniques Lab (NET Lab)
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX 75080


Rajesh@utdallas.edu
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===============================================================================


On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 wjlou@ufl.edu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can someone refer me models for energy consumption calculation in ad hoc 
> networks? I wonder what is a good assumption to evaluate the total energy 
> consumption. Thanks.
> 
> Wenjing
> -------------------
> 



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More in response to your note from yesterday. As a way of analyzing the 
issues, I'm thinking about the behavior of OSPF in the same case, to ask 
myself what particularly would be different. Guess what; there are quite a 
few differences, and the various manet protocols are obviously optimized in 
various ways to reduce the chitchat from what OSPF would go through.

However, OSPF resolves this re-broadcasting issue quite simply. It floods 
an LSA that it receives if and only if the LSA was not already in its link 
state database, and otherwise ignores it.

It seems that moving the function to the application simplifies it based on 
the application databases, while trying to put it into IP itself makes it 
fairly complex.

BTW, putting it into the application makes the IP TTL unavailable. That 
argues towards an application level TTL for "widening ring" searches.



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At 02:30 AM 1/23/2002, MEDDOUR Djamal Eddine thesard FTRD/DAC/LAN wrote:
>is anyone know the manner used by an Ad Hoc host to get an IP address ? is 
>there a differences betwwen a local area and a large nnetwork for the 
>allocation ?

I don't see any draft that specifically addresses that.

It seems to me that there are three possible ways:
  - static configuration
  - DHCP or something like it
  - autoconfiguration

frankly, in an IPv6 world, I would hope that some form of autoconfiguration 
would be useful. There are some issues; if one picks a random number and 
asks one's immediate neighbors whether it's a good choice, they may not 
know what would be a good choice after the device moves. However, basing it 
on a serial number printed in a ROM (as is done with Ethernet addresses) 
has a good chance of avoiding ambiguities in the procedure.

In IPv4 or IPv6, static configuration can be used in networks of moderate 
scale.

DHCP etc has issues, though, at least as it stands. What we do today is 
configure address proxies which can forward DHCP messages to more central 
DHCP servers, or configure DHCP servers in the routers themselves. In a 
manet, this seems problematic - some systems in the network might have 
difficulty obtaining addresses during times of instability.



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At 11:55 AM 1/24/2002 -0800, Fred Baker wrote:
>At 02:30 AM 1/23/2002, MEDDOUR Djamal Eddine thesard FTRD/DAC/LAN wrote:
>>is anyone know the manner used by an Ad Hoc host to get an IP address ? is there a differences betwwen a local area and a large nnetwork for the allocation ?
>
>I don't see any draft that specifically addresses that.
>
>It seems to me that there are three possible ways:
> - static configuration
> - DHCP or something like it
> - autoconfiguration
>
>frankly, in an IPv6 world, I would hope that some form of autoconfiguration would be useful. There are some issues; if one picks a random number and asks one's immediate neighbors whether it's a good choice, they may not know what would be a good choice after the device moves. However, basing it on a serial number printed in a ROM (as is done with Ethernet addresses) has a good chance of avoiding ambiguities in the procedure.

I think v6 version implementations hold some promise for easing autoconfiguration here as Fred indicates (by using addresses partially based on MAC addresses,etc). 


>In IPv4 or IPv6, static configuration can be used in networks of moderate scale.

Yes, has been done so in practice within a manet domain of 20-30 nodes with little pain.  Would quickly become more painful as things grew and dispersed?  Used dhcp at edges for handling wired hosts carried along with manet routers (advertised mask so no brainer there).


>DHCP etc has issues, though, at least as it stands. What we do today is configure address proxies which can forward DHCP messages to more central DHCP servers, or configure DHCP servers in the routers themselves. In a manet, this seems problematic - some systems in the network might have difficulty obtaining addresses during times of instability.

Some of you may have missed the zeroconf relationship discussions we had in London. Interesting discussions and along the lines of outlining some problem spaces...at least the discussion should have been covered in the minutes. I believe there is future interesting work to be done here.  There have been early draft IDs and ideas being kicked around in this space. The distributed, multi-hop nature and potential dynamics are obvious issues.






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> At 02:30 AM 1/23/2002, MEDDOUR Djamal Eddine thesard FTRD/DAC/LAN wrote:
> >is anyone know the manner used by an Ad Hoc host to get an IP address ? is 
> >there a differences betwwen a local area and a large nnetwork for the 
> >allocation ?
> 
> I don't see any draft that specifically addresses that.
> 

Our revised Internet Draft on address autoconfiguration 
(revised for the last IETF) addresses this issue for both
IPv4 and IPv6 networks.  The basic mechanism is that 
a mobile node selects an address from some address space,
and then it must perform duplicate address detection to
ensure that address is not already claimed within the network.

The draft name is draft-perkins-manet-autoconf-01.txt.
Its in the Internet Draft repository.

Elizabeth



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If we have a network that is splited in two parts that have no network
connectivity between them (the two groups might be far away from each
other) and then they get merged (because nodes actually move, and the
two groups might get closer), it is possible that two nodes (one on
each part) have the same address because when they used this
'duplicate address detection' they didn't detect each other and they
thought that nobody else was using the same address than themselves.

So, if nodes move, your solution just doesn't work.

BR/Manel Guerrero


"ext Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer" wrote:
> 
> > At 02:30 AM 1/23/2002, MEDDOUR Djamal Eddine thesard FTRD/DAC/LAN wrote:
> > >is anyone know the manner used by an Ad Hoc host to get an IP address ? is
> > >there a differences betwwen a local area and a large nnetwork for the
> > >allocation ?
> >
> > I don't see any draft that specifically addresses that.
> >
> 
> Our revised Internet Draft on address autoconfiguration
> (revised for the last IETF) addresses this issue for both
> IPv4 and IPv6 networks.  The basic mechanism is that
> a mobile node selects an address from some address space,
> and then it must perform duplicate address detection to
> ensure that address is not already claimed within the network.
> 
> The draft name is draft-perkins-manet-autoconf-01.txt.
> Its in the Internet Draft repository.
> 
> Elizabeth


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> However, OSPF resolves this re-broadcasting issue quite simply. It floods
> an LSA that it receives if and only if the LSA was not already in its link
> state database, and otherwise ignores it.
>
I agree. OSPF uses the LSA sequence number for this. By the way  the
flooding of OSPF is fairly heavy since it requires ack from neighbors.

>
> BTW, putting it into the application makes the IP TTL unavailable. That
> argues towards an application level TTL for "widening ring" searches.
>

Do you mean that the routing application should decrement TTL and this would
be against the use of some kind of encapsulation/tunneling by routing?

Philippe



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At 05:27 AM 1/25/2002, Philippe Jacquet wrote:
>I agree. OSPF uses the LSA sequence number for this. By the way  the
>flooding of OSPF is fairly heavy since it requires ack from neighbors.

true, but I will argue that this is only half the story. OSPF will only use 
broadcast on an interface that supports a designated router. Hence, it not 
only acknowledges on a point to point basis, it forwards the information 
(in a manet, where a designated router election is problematic) on a point 
to point basis.

I bring up OSPF because it is a protocol that is known to work, and has a 
fair bit of mechanism. Anything that is the same is the same, and anything 
that is different is up for review. The review is likely to be favorable; 
the important point is the underlying reason for the difference.

> > BTW, putting it into the application makes the IP TTL unavailable. That
> > argues towards an application level TTL for "widening ring" searches.
>
>Do you mean that the routing application should decrement TTL and this would
>be against the use of some kind of encapsulation/tunneling by routing?

I mean that if the application wants a TTL (such as in an AODV 
hello-equivalent-RREP or a widening RREQ search, which are both limited by 
TTL), it should put the TTL in the application layer information. The IP 
TTL is not necessarily available to it, and requires changes to IP to make 
use of.

I'm pointing out a layer or API violation in some protocols. The IP header 
is available to upper layers across some interfaces (kernel interfaces, 
usually) but not across socket interfaces. Let's say, for example, that you 
wanted to put such a protocol into my router; the IP header would not 
necessarily be available to the routing protocol, because the routing 
protocol is an application that rides on the IP layer.



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Manel:

These same issues were raised by many during the London meeting and in years past.  Along these lines, I remember looking through related work in distributed multicast address allocation (at the application layer to setup dynamic unique endpoint identifiers) attempting to address issues of "collision detection and resolution" as dynamics and topology fragmentation occur. Not an easy problem, especially at the routing protocol layer. So I don't think we have a good robust solution at the present time for surviving and recovering robustly from duplicate address collision for dynamic, multi-hop networks with fragmentation,etc occurring.  As another (less distributed option) a fixed arbitration authority (manet stubs may often connect to a fixed infrastructure),etc can perhaps solve this in an easier fashion that handles the fragmentation case.  Multicast or anycast services might be useful regardless of how its solved.

-Joe

At 09:52 AM 1/25/2002 +0200, Manel Guerrero Zapata wrote:
>If we have a network that is splited in two parts that have no network
>connectivity between them (the two groups might be far away from each
>other) and then they get merged (because nodes actually move, and the
>two groups might get closer), it is possible that two nodes (one on
>each part) have the same address because when they used this
>'duplicate address detection' they didn't detect each other and they
>thought that nobody else was using the same address than themselves.
>
>So, if nodes move, your solution just doesn't work.
>
>BR/Manel Guerrero
>
>
>"ext Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer" wrote:
>> 
>> > At 02:30 AM 1/23/2002, MEDDOUR Djamal Eddine thesard FTRD/DAC/LAN wrote:
>> > >is anyone know the manner used by an Ad Hoc host to get an IP address ? is
>> > >there a differences betwwen a local area and a large nnetwork for the
>> > >allocation ?
>> >
>> > I don't see any draft that specifically addresses that.
>> >
>> 
>> Our revised Internet Draft on address autoconfiguration
>> (revised for the last IETF) addresses this issue for both
>> IPv4 and IPv6 networks.  The basic mechanism is that
>> a mobile node selects an address from some address space,
>> and then it must perform duplicate address detection to
>> ensure that address is not already claimed within the network.
>> 
>> The draft name is draft-perkins-manet-autoconf-01.txt.
>> Its in the Internet Draft repository.
>> 
>> Elizabeth




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On the topic of address allocation, we have a paper titled -
"MANETconf: Configuration of Hosts in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network", due to
appear in the proceedings of Infocom 2002.
We have presented a comparison of the exitsing approaches to address
allocation, and developed a distributed alogirithm to dynamically allocate
addresses. Issues related to partitioning and the merger of partitions
(leading to address conflicts) have been addressed as well.

This paper can be accessed at:
www.utdallas.edu/~ravip/papers/infocom2002.pdf

We hope that our paper addresses some of the more pertinent issues in
address allocation. Any feedback is very welcome.

Thanks,
- Sanket

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        telling myself its not as hard as it seems
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Sanket S. Nesargi
Distributed Systems Lab
University of Texas at Dallas,        http://www.utdallas.edu/~sanket
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Manel Guerrero Zapata wrote:

> If we have a network that is splited in two parts that have no network
> connectivity between them (the two groups might be far away from each
> other) and then they get merged (because nodes actually move, and the
> two groups might get closer), it is possible that two nodes (one on
> each part) have the same address because when they used this
> 'duplicate address detection' they didn't detect each other and they
> thought that nobody else was using the same address than themselves.
> 
> So, if nodes move, your solution just doesn't work.
> 
> BR/Manel Guerrero
> 
> 
> "ext Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer" wrote:
> > 
> > > At 02:30 AM 1/23/2002, MEDDOUR Djamal Eddine thesard FTRD/DAC/LAN wrote:
> > > >is anyone know the manner used by an Ad Hoc host to get an IP address ? is
> > > >there a differences betwwen a local area and a large nnetwork for the
> > > >allocation ?
> > >
> > > I don't see any draft that specifically addresses that.
> > >
> > 
> > Our revised Internet Draft on address autoconfiguration
> > (revised for the last IETF) addresses this issue for both
> > IPv4 and IPv6 networks.  The basic mechanism is that
> > a mobile node selects an address from some address space,
> > and then it must perform duplicate address detection to
> > ensure that address is not already claimed within the network.
> > 
> > The draft name is draft-perkins-manet-autoconf-01.txt.
> > Its in the Internet Draft repository.
> > 
> > Elizabeth
> 




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> At 05:27 AM 1/25/2002, Philippe Jacquet wrote:
> >I agree. OSPF uses the LSA sequence number for this. By the way  the
> >flooding of OSPF is fairly heavy since it requires ack from neighbors.
> 
> true, but I will argue that this is only half the story. OSPF will only use 
> broadcast on an interface that supports a designated router. Hence, it not 
> only acknowledges on a point to point basis, it forwards the information 
> (in a manet, where a designated router election is problematic) on a point 
> to point basis.

I would say this is much less than half the story, since there
are other factors that make TBRPF and OLSR more efficient than OSPF
in MANETs:

  - OSPF uses classical flooding to disseminate LSA's,
    (except on interfaces that support designated routers),
    whereas TBRPF and OLSR use more efficient mechanisms (based on 
    parents and MPRs) for propagating topology information.  
    (Actually, one could say that these efficient mechanisms are 
    analogous to designated routers, which as you say are problematic
    for MANETs.)

  - OSPF is a full-topology protocol, i.e., every node within a given 
    area is provided with the entire topology of the area, whereas
    TBRPF and OLSR provide each node with only a small part
    of the topology, sufficient to compute shortest paths.
    
  - In OSPF, each HELLO contains the ID of every neighbor, whereas
    TBRPF uses much smaller differential HELLOs, which report only 
    *changes* in neighbor states.

There are other differences (such as the fact that TBRPF does not require 
sequence numbers for topology updates), but I think but these are the main 
advantages over OSPF.

Regards,
Richard



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At 11:22 AM 1/25/2002 -0600, Saad Biaz wrote:
>I am following this thread of address allocation and wonder about the
>necessity or the meaning of an address at the network layer.
>
>Let us consider an IP address. This IP address is useful at the network
>layer ONLY to bring a packet to the right subnet. When a packet reaches the 
>subnet, it is the MAC address that is used to find out the node.
>
>Now, consider the adhoc networks. There are no subnets. Nodes moving from
>place to place, sometimes in the range of some set of nodes, later in te
>range of another set. If the network layer does not refer to some
>"grouping", then why need one. It is useless.
>
>Therefore, why not just use the MAC address that is normally unique?

You may have missed in the thread we talked about this option.  Using a potentially unique ROM-burned number as a segment of the address space was covered in the discussion and its a good option.  We are however dealing with IP routing, since this is an IETF WG, and heterogeneity,etc is important.  There may indeed be large sets of fixed subnets attached to mobile manet routers in some cases or we may route across multiple wireless media.  We have discussed this before.

-Joe




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APE test-bed v0.3 released today!
---------------------------------

As there is an increasing need for more real-world 
experiments and evaluations of ad hoc routing protocols
we are happy to officially announce the release our
 
  Ad hoc Protocol Evaluation test-bed (APE).


Binary distribution and source code (GPL) can be downloaded from:
http://apetestbed.sourceforge.net/


APE aims at making the process of real-world ad hoc routing 
experiments as simple as possible. It focuses on smooth deployment,
customization and ability to easily repeat experiments with 
different protocols for comparison (including tools to assess
the similarity between repeated testruns). Scenarios can be  
scripted and test-participants only need to follow on-screen 
movement instructions. APE includes several tools for performing
post-test analysis of collected testrun data.

APE consists of an encapsulated, pre-configured Linux execution
environment (only 8M!). It can be easily installed on nodes 
running Linux or Windows (with DOS support): download, install
and reboot into the testbed execution environment. This simple 
procedure is crucial when performing large tests and makes it 
easy to invite people to participate in testruns.

APE can potentially be used for evaluation of any ad hoc protocol
implemented under Linux. Currently, APE is prepared to support 
the following:
- AODV-UU (Uppsala University - source included in APE)
- MAD-HOC (KTH - source included in APE)
- DSR (University of Queensland)
- OLSR (Inria)
- TORA (UMD)
- LUNAR (Uppsala University - source included in APE)

Other misc. useful things in APE includes:
- A MAC-filter tool (mackill) to fake connectivity in scenarios.
- TTCP for performance testing.
- A simple MP3 streamer (mp3stream) for audible demos.
- A graphical tool (APE-view) that can re-play a testrun's 
topological configurations over time (based on signal quality).

A technical report about APE is available at 
http://www.it.uu.se/research/reports/2001-029/
(a version of this paper was accepted for publication at WCNC'02)


Don't hesistate to send any comments, suggestions or possible
problems you encounter to: 
apetestbed-support@lists.sourceforge.net


Henrik Lundgren & Erik Nordström

Department of Computer Systems,
Uppsala University 














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We have a paper about IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
in large mobile ad hoc networks.

In our approach, an hierarchical address space is build up
and the flooding during the Duplicate Address Detection
is limited. Therefore, we claim to achieve an improved scalability.
Furthermore, unique addresses are also guaranteed in the case
that two independently configured networks merge.

You can download the paper at our IPonAir-project homepage:

  http://www.iponair.de/publications_en.shtml



Kilian Weniger





On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer wrote:

>
>
> > At 02:30 AM 1/23/2002, MEDDOUR Djamal Eddine thesard FTRD/DAC/LAN wrote:
> > >is anyone know the manner used by an Ad Hoc host to get an IP address ? is
> > >there a differences betwwen a local area and a large nnetwork for the
> > >allocation ?
> >
> > I don't see any draft that specifically addresses that.
> >
>
> Our revised Internet Draft on address autoconfiguration
> (revised for the last IETF) addresses this issue for both
> IPv4 and IPv6 networks.  The basic mechanism is that
> a mobile node selects an address from some address space,
> and then it must perform duplicate address detection to
> ensure that address is not already claimed within the network.
>
> The draft name is draft-perkins-manet-autoconf-01.txt.
> Its in the Internet Draft repository.
>
> Elizabeth
>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aurel A. Lazar [mailto:aurel@ee.columbia.edu]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:20 PM
> To: mnl@comet.columbia.edu
> Cc: Aurel A. Lazar (E-mail)
> Subject: DIREN'02
> 
> 
> Call for Participation
> 
> The First IEEE Workshop on Disaster Recovery Networks 
> invites your participation in this international 
> forum on innovative network technologies, architectures, and 
> services that can be effectively deployed during disaster 
> recovery. DIREN is sponsored (pending) by the IEEE Communications 
> Society and will be co-located and organized in conjunction with 
> INFOCOM.
> 
> Please submit by March 15, 2002, a short statement about the 
> topics that you would like to discuss or would like to hear being 
> discussed to aurel@ee.columbia.edu or nick@ee.columbia.edu. 
> 
> The program of the workshop will be posted at 
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> 
> Organizing and Program Committee
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> Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University 
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> 
> 


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ALL:

This message is to announce a 2 week "WG Last-Call for comments" schedule on the recent updated AODV ID submittal.  As discussed at the last meeting, the intent is to consider submitting this document for EXPERIMENTAL RFC.  Because of some content changes since the last go around we felt an additional WG Last Call was warranted. The document is, more specifically, draft-ietf-manet-aodv-10.txt that was recently announced.

Please note, this is not a general IESG Last-Call on these documents, which MAY occur at a later date if this document progresses for EXPERIMENTAL status consideration. Please read RFC2026 if you desire more clarification on EXPERIMENTAL RFC purpose and procedure.

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Dear Colleagues

We apologize if you receive multiple copies. The deadline is approaching 
fast, which is next Thursday. You may want to spend the weekend to 
prepare your draft. Have a fun weekend :-) ---Michael 

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Call For Papers

2002 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and
Telecommunication Systems
SPECTS 2002


July 14-19, 2002
U. S. Grant Hotel
San Diego, California, USA

http://www.scs.org/confernc/spects02/


This annual international conference is a forum for professionals
involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication
systems. Evaluation of computer systems and networks is needed at every
stage in the life cycle of the product including design, manufacturing,
sales/purchase, use, upgrade, tuning, etc. The discipline of performance
evaluation has progressed rapidly in the past decade, and it has now
begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in
analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for
performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Networking and Telecommunication Systems
- Internet Technology
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- DiffServ/IntServ
- TCP
- Unicast and Multicast Routing
- High-Speed Networking
- ATM
- Optical Networks
- Switching Techniques
- Teletraffic
- Satellite Systems and Networks
- Wireless Systems
- UMTS/IMT-2000
- Mobile Networks/Computing
- Multimedia Systems
- Multimedia Communications
- Adaptive Communications
- Network Protocols
- Network Management and Control
- Network Capacity Planning
- Network Architecture Evaluation
- Service and QoS Pricing
- Security and Authentication
- World Wide Web (WWW) Technology
- Electronic Commerce


Computer Systems
- Client/Server
- Microprocessors/Microcomputers
- Memory Systems
- Interconnection Networks
- Software Performance
- Software Evaluation and Testing
- Hardware and Software Monitors
- High-Performance Computing
- Workload and Traffic Characterization
- Scientific Computing Algorithms
- High Performance I/O
- Reconfigurable Computing
-Real-time Systems
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Distributed Systems and Agents
- Massively Parallel Systems
- Cluster Computing
- Parallel Algorithms and Languages
- Scheduling Schemes


Tools, Methodologies and Applications
- Parallel and Distributed Simulation
- Verification and Validation
- Performance Tools and Methodologies
- Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications to High Performance
  Computing/Networking
- Performance Optimization
- Queueing Systems and Networks
- Scalability Studies
- Integrated Modeling and Measurement
- On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning
- Process Algebra-Based Models
- Performance Bounds
- Integrated Design and Performance
- New Performance Models
- Mathematical Aspects of Performance
- New Performability Schemes and Models
- Case Studies


General Chair
Mohammad S. Obaidat
Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University
W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA
Tel +1-732-571-4482
Fax +1-732-263-5202
E-mail: obaidat@monmouth.edu


Senior Program Chair
Franco Davoli
DIST-University of Genoa
Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy
Tel +39-010-353-2732
Fax +39-010-353-2154
E-Mail: franco@dist.unige.it

Program Co-Chairs
Ibrahim Onyuksel
Dept. of Computer Sciences, N. Illinois Univ., USA
E-mail: onyuksel@cs.niu.edu

Raffaele Bolla
DIST-University of Genoa
Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy
E-mail: lelus@dist.unige.it

Vice Program Chair
Erina Ferro  
CNUCE, Institute of National Research Council (C.N.R.)
C.N.R. Pisa Research Area, Building B, Room 73        
Via G. Moruzzi, 1                                     
56124 Pisa, Italy   
E-mail: erina.ferro@cnuce.cnr.it

Industrial Track Chair
J. Fox, Motorola Inc., UK
E-mail: fox.ijcs@btinternet.com

Publicity Chair
Yuguang (Michael) Fang, University of Florida, USA, E-mail: fang@ece.ufl.edu

Web Master:
Daniel Lee, University of Southern California, E-mail: dclee@rcf-fs.usc.edu


Technical Program Committee

Jagan  P. Agrawal, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA
Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech., USA
M. Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA
Harmen R. van As, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Louis G. Birta, University of Ottawa, Canada
Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Hasan Cam, Arizona State University, USA
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA
Fabio M. Chiussi, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA
Hassan B. Diab, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Radio Systems, Sweden
John Fox, Motorola, UK
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Aura Ganz, University of Massachusetts, USA
Erol Gelenbe, University of Central Florida, USA
Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France
Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Herman Hughes, Michigan State University, USA
Andrzej Jajszczyk, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland
Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece
Demetrios Kazakos, University of Louisiana, USA	
Ulrich Killat, Tech Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
Tag Gon Kim, KAIST, Korea
Belka Kraimeche, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Paul J. Kuehn, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, Compaq Computers Corp., USA
Axel Lehmann, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Daniel C. Lee, USC, USA
Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA
Imad Mahgoub, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland
Jose L. Marzo, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Xiannong Meng, Bucknell University, USA 
Hussein Mouftah, Queen's University, Canada
M. Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK
Sergio Palazzo, Università di Catania, Italy
Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece
Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Steven Pink, University of Arizona, USA
George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece
Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain 
Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA
Gian Paolo Rossi, Università di Milano, Italy
Izhak Rubin, UCLA, USA
Donald Schilling, CUNY, USA
Jens B. Schmitt, TU Darmstadt, Germany
C. Tim Spracklen, Aberdeen University, UK
Tatsuya Suda, UCI, USA
Iwao Toda, Fujutsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Kenneth S. Vastola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain
Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany
Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy

International Liaisons
B. Sadoun, Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan
Bsadoun@go.com.jo
M. Sawan, Montreal Poly, Canada
Sawan@vlsi.polymtl.ca
N. Tchamov, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
Nikolay@cs.tut.fi

Publicity Committee:
Hiedeki Tode, Osaka Univ., Japan, E-mail: Tode@ise.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
Nusseirat, Al-Isra University, Jordan, E-mail: anuseirat@firstnet.com.jo

Paper Submission
Submit your complete papers electronically to: 

http://scs.proceedingscentral.com/

All required instructions will be posted on this web site. Submissions 
should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, 
tables, and references) in 10-12 point font. Include five to ten keywords, 
complete postal and e-mail addresses, and fax and phone numbers of 
corresponding author. If you have difficulty in electronic submission, 
contact the Web Master, Program Chairs or the Conference Coordinator, 
Mr. Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 
4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA  92111, USA, Tel 858-277-3888, 
Fax 858-277-3930, E-mail sbranch@scs.org sbranch@scs.org.

Extended versions of accepted papers in SPECTS 2002 will be considered for 
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Hello

I am trying to get a clear picture of how AODV should operate when using
HELLO messages.

Section 6.9 (Hello messages) says:

"The route to the neighbor, if it exists, MUST subsequently contain the
latest Destination Sequence Number from the Hello message."

Does this mean that I always set the sequence number in the routing
table entry for the neighbor equal to the one in the HELLO/RREP message?
Even if the sequence number in the HELLO message is smaller than the one
in the routing table? 

Also, if an entry already exists for the neighbor when receiving one of
its hello messages, and that entry is a multi-hop route, should the
route be updated/optimized to reflect that the neighbor now is directly
reachable (hop count = 1)? Or is the HELLO message treated in the same
manner as a RREP (since it is a RREP), and the routing table entry only
updated if the HELLO message fulfill the same requirements as for a
RREP?
In any case, updating or "optimizing" the route upon reception of HELLO
messages will make sure that a route is always the shortest possible.
But I also see the following problems:

* In the borderlines of where direct communication can be withheld,
HELLO messages may go through sporadically. Then the route may go from 1
to 2 hops back and forth, so that communication with the destination can
not be withheld. This could be counteracted by introducing a condition
saying, for example, that 3 consecutive HELLOs should be received before
the destination is considered being a neighbor.

* If a long route is "optimized" at intermediate nodes, the end-points
of the route may get invalid hop-counts (which do not reflect the true
hop count). I guess this might also happen when doing local repairs...

If the multi-hop routing table entry is _not_ updated upon reception of
a HELLO message, AODV may suffer from non-optimal routes in the network.
Also, any multi-hop routes to a destination which suddenly becomes a
neighbor will not expire (or become a 1 hop route) when data is no
longer sent on the route, as long as HELLO messages (or other AODV
messages) are received. This is due to the fact that the draft says that
a routing table entry's lifetime should always be updated upon receiving
an AODV control message.

Another issue: the last sentence in section 6.9 says...

"Routes that are newly created from the reception of Hello messages
might have empty precursor lists, and in that case would not trigger
RERR messages when the neighbor moves away and the neighbor route
expires."

But what if there exists routes which use the expired route as next hop?
Then a RERR should be sent in case those routes have non-empty precursor
lists, even though the route created from the reception of Hello
messages had an empty precursor list.


Comments?

/Erik Nordström, 
Uppsala University
Sweden




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Hi,

> is there any new studies wich made a comparaison between all routing
> protocols (espicially AODV and OLSR) .

I know of one such study, performed by some students at Aalborg University, 
Denmark.

Have a look at: http://www.cs.auc.dk/library/files/rapbibfiles1/995622889.ps

Regards, Per Olesen


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Hi,

I quote from RFC 2026 as to what "experimental" RFC are supposed to be
in the IETF.  

4.2

   Specifications that are not on the standards track are labeled with
   one of three "off-track" maturity levels:  "Experimental",
   "Informational", or "Historic".  The documents bearing these labels
   are not Internet Standards in any sense.

4.2.1  Experimental

   The "Experimental" designation typically denotes a specification that
   is part of some research or development effort.  Such a specification
   is published for the general information of the Internet technical
   community and as an archival record of the work, subject only to
   editorial considerations and to verification that there has been
   adequate coordination with the standards process (see below).  An
   Experimental specification may be the output of an organized Internet
   research effort (e.g., a Research Group of the IRTF), an IETF Working
   Group, or it may be an individual contribution.

From section 3.3

(d)  Limited Use:  The TS is considered to be appropriate for use
      only in limited or unique circumstances.  For example, the usage
      of a protocol with the "Experimental" designation should generally
      be limited to those actively involved with the experiment.

Has someone defined the "experiment"?  When will the "experiment"
be completed?   When will be AODV be reconsidered for "standards
track"?

Thanks,

Phil Neumiller



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Dear All:

I am wondering if there's some network simulator that includes the
shadowing in the propagation model. As i know, GloMoSim, ns-2 and OPNET
all do not inlcude shadowing, while they have added or are going to add
multipath fading. Is that because shadowing is not an main factor in
ad-hoc network environment? Or is it hard to simulate?

Thanks a lot!
BR/Yi Lu




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Dear Richard,

I agree that OLSR is an optimized adaptation of OSPF. But I don't follow
your claim about reporting neighbors in TBRPF:

 >   - In OSPF, each HELLO contains the ID of every neighbor, whereas
 >     TBRPF uses much smaller differential HELLOs, which report only 
 >     *changes* in neighbor states.

As I understand your draft, all neighbors are advertised regularly in
every periodic topology update message (every
PER_UPDATE_INTERVAL). Indeed I had a hard time for figuring that out
from your pseudo-code.

No matter whether you advertise the full list of neighbors in HELLOs
or in TOPOLOGY UPDATES, the overhead is there. What is the right
period for advertising this list is a tuning issue. 

laurent

ogier@erg.sri.com writes:
 > > At 05:27 AM 1/25/2002, Philippe Jacquet wrote:
 > > >I agree. OSPF uses the LSA sequence number for this. By the way  the
 > > >flooding of OSPF is fairly heavy since it requires ack from neighbors.
 > > 
 > > true, but I will argue that this is only half the story. OSPF will only use 
 > > broadcast on an interface that supports a designated router. Hence, it not 
 > > only acknowledges on a point to point basis, it forwards the information 
 > > (in a manet, where a designated router election is problematic) on a point 
 > > to point basis.
 > 
 > I would say this is much less than half the story, since there
 > are other factors that make TBRPF and OLSR more efficient than OSPF
 > in MANETs:
 > 
 >   - OSPF uses classical flooding to disseminate LSA's,
 >     (except on interfaces that support designated routers),
 >     whereas TBRPF and OLSR use more efficient mechanisms (based on 
 >     parents and MPRs) for propagating topology information.  
 >     (Actually, one could say that these efficient mechanisms are 
 >     analogous to designated routers, which as you say are problematic
 >     for MANETs.)
 > 
 >   - OSPF is a full-topology protocol, i.e., every node within a given 
 >     area is provided with the entire topology of the area, whereas
 >     TBRPF and OLSR provide each node with only a small part
 >     of the topology, sufficient to compute shortest paths.
 >     
 >   - In OSPF, each HELLO contains the ID of every neighbor, whereas
 >     TBRPF uses much smaller differential HELLOs, which report only 
 >     *changes* in neighbor states.
 > 
 > There are other differences (such as the fact that TBRPF does not require 
 > sequence numbers for topology updates), but I think but these are the main 
 > advantages over OSPF.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Richard
 > 


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On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Raymond Wang wrote:
Hi, Ray:

Thanks for your reply!
Actually, i didn't really get into the simulators GloMoSim and OPNET, but
i did see through the code of ns-2 and didn't find anything regarding
lognormal shadowing. The version i read was ns 2.1b4a and cmu extension
1.1.2, could you please designate the version that added the shadowing, if
any?

Thanks a lot!
Yi Lu


> Hi Yi,
> 
> Not sure where you got that info, but as far as I
> know, GloMoSim/Qualnet, ns-2, and OPNET all support
> lognormal shadowing, aka "large-scale" fading which is
> usually on the order of distances of ~100 m.  For most
> of the foreseeable applications of ad hoc networks,
> lognormal shadowing will be much less of a factor than
> path loss and multipath, or "small-scale", fading
> since these applications will generally be on a small
> scale (i.e. <= 100 m) or, in many military apps, in an
> environment where there is little to no shadowing. 
> 
> Ray
> 
> --- Yi Lv <luyy@ececs.uc.edu> wrote:
> > Dear All:
> > 
> > I am wondering if there's some network simulator
> > that includes the
> > shadowing in the propagation model. As i know,
> > GloMoSim, ns-2 and OPNET
> > all do not inlcude shadowing, while they have added
> > or are going to add
> > multipath fading. Is that because shadowing is not
> > an main factor in
> > ad-hoc network environment? Or is it hard to
> > simulate?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot!
> > BR/Yi Lu
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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Yi,
	QualNet does...at least they say they do. Apparently, they are releasing 
an update in February.

	http://www.qualnet.com/products/QualNet/mobilitymodels.html

-Dave

Yi Lv wrote:

> Dear All:
> 
> I am wondering if there's some network simulator that includes the
> shadowing in the propagation model. As i know, GloMoSim, ns-2 and OPNET
> all do not inlcude shadowing, while they have added or are going to add
> multipath fading. Is that because shadowing is not an main factor in
> ad-hoc network environment? Or is it hard to simulate?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> BR/Yi Lu
> 
> 
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At 10:42 PM 1/28/2002 -0500, Yi Lv wrote:
>Dear All:
>
>I am wondering if there's some network simulator that includes the
>shadowing in the propagation model. As i know, GloMoSim, ns-2 and OPNET
>all do not inlcude shadowing, while they have added or are going to add
>multipath fading. Is that because shadowing is not an main factor in
>ad-hoc network environment? Or is it hard to simulate?
Yi:

I just doublechecked and a shadowing model exists in recent ns2 release, in addition to the add-on multipath models. Shadowing is an important factor, how important it is would depend on the scenario (e.g., intrabuilding) and transmission parameters being modeled (its physics dependent).



>Thanks a lot!
>BR/Yi Lu




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Yi,

I am using ns-2.1b8a which comes with shadowing support.  To answer your 
question below whether it is hard to simulate, it's pretty simple to 
simulate large-scale fading for any packet-level simulator.  The real 
challenge is trying to simulate bit-level effects like small-scale fading.

Ray

At 09:43 AM 1/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Raymond Wang wrote:
>Hi, Ray:
>
>Thanks for your reply!
>Actually, i didn't really get into the simulators GloMoSim and OPNET, but
>i did see through the code of ns-2 and didn't find anything regarding
>lognormal shadowing. The version i read was ns 2.1b4a and cmu extension
>1.1.2, could you please designate the version that added the shadowing, if
>any?
>
>Thanks a lot!
>Yi Lu
>
>
> > Hi Yi,
> >
> > Not sure where you got that info, but as far as I
> > know, GloMoSim/Qualnet, ns-2, and OPNET all support
> > lognormal shadowing, aka "large-scale" fading which is
> > usually on the order of distances of ~100 m.  For most
> > of the foreseeable applications of ad hoc networks,
> > lognormal shadowing will be much less of a factor than
> > path loss and multipath, or "small-scale", fading
> > since these applications will generally be on a small
> > scale (i.e. <= 100 m) or, in many military apps, in an
> > environment where there is little to no shadowing.
> >
> > Ray
> >
> > --- Yi Lv <luyy@ececs.uc.edu> wrote:
> > > Dear All:
> > >
> > > I am wondering if there's some network simulator
> > > that includes the
> > > shadowing in the propagation model. As i know,
> > > GloMoSim, ns-2 and OPNET
> > > all do not inlcude shadowing, while they have added
> > > or are going to add
> > > multipath fading. Is that because shadowing is not
> > > an main factor in
> > > ad-hoc network environment? Or is it hard to
> > > simulate?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > > BR/Yi Lu
> > >
> > >
> >
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I found it in 2.1b7a so more recent releases should also have it.

At 09:43 AM 1/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Raymond Wang wrote:
>Hi, Ray:
>
>Thanks for your reply!
>Actually, i didn't really get into the simulators GloMoSim and OPNET, but
>i did see through the code of ns-2 and didn't find anything regarding
>lognormal shadowing. The version i read was ns 2.1b4a and cmu extension
>1.1.2, could you please designate the version that added the shadowing, if
>any?
>
>Thanks a lot!
>Yi Lu




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Laurent,

> Dear Richard,
> 
> I agree that OLSR is an optimized adaptation of OSPF. But I don't follow
> your claim about reporting neighbors in TBRPF:
> 
>  >   - In OSPF, each HELLO contains the ID of every neighbor, whereas
>  >     TBRPF uses much smaller differential HELLOs, which report only 
>  >     *changes* in neighbor states.
> 
> As I understand your draft, all neighbors are advertised regularly in
> every periodic topology update message (every
> PER_UPDATE_INTERVAL). Indeed I had a hard time for figuring that out
> from your pseudo-code.
> 
> No matter whether you advertise the full list of neighbors in HELLOs
> or in TOPOLOGY UPDATES, the overhead is there. What is the right
> period for advertising this list is a tuning issue. 
> 
> laurent

The main tuning issue regarding HELLOs (whether you are talking
about TBRPF, OLSR, or OSPF) is that if HELLOs are sent more
frequently, then the detection of link failures/breakages can be
done more quickly.  Thus it would be good to send HELLOs more
frequently (e.g., every 0.5 sec) if nodes are moving fast.

Since HELLOs are differential in TBRPF, this can be done with a
relatively small increase in overhead.  However, in OSPF and OLSR,
since each HELLO contains all neighbor IDs, this would increase
overhead a lot if each node has a large number of neighbors.

In TBRPF, each node reports links to all neighbors in periodic
topology updates, which are sent less frequently than HELLOs,
just as periodic TC messages are sent less frequently than
HELLOs in OLSR.  For example, in a network with very fast moving
nodes, HELLOs might be sent every 0.5 second while periodic topology
updates are sent every 5 seconds.  Therefore, TBRPF saves a lot of
overhead by reporting links to neighbors less frequently.
(In OLSR, each node needs to advertise its neighbor set more
frequently because this information is needed to select MPRs.)

Another advantage of reporting links to neighbors in topology updates 
instead of HELLOs is that (unlike OLSR) neighbor sensing performs ONLY 
neighbor sensing.  Thus, in TBRPF, neighbor sensing is completely modular 
and separate from topology discovery. In OLSR, each node reports its links 
to all neighbors (and also its MPRs) in HELLOs.  Note that OSPF also
uses HELLOs only for neighbor sensing (even though the HELLOs are
not differential). I really think this is a better approach.

A related issue is that TBRPF also uses differential topology updates
(unlike OLSR) so that a link failure (e.g., detected through link-layer
notification) can be quickly reported with minimal overhead to all 
nodes that are affected by the failure.

I noticed that OLSR allows triggered TC messages to be sent in response 
to link-layer notification.  Since these are full (not differential)
TC messages, I would expect that this will create a lot of additional
control traffic if link-layer notification is used in highly mobile 
networks with a large number of streams.  However, the simulation
study posted a few days (comparing OLSR to AODV) does not use link-layer 
notification (resulting in a packet delivery fraction that is often 
less than 50%), and the ns-2 code for OLSR available from the INRIA 
site does not provide link-layer notification (as does the available 
AODV code and the available TBRPF code at www.erg.sri.com/projects/tbrpf).

I think it is important to conduct simulations that use link-layer 
notification for the following reasons:

  1. It is the only way to achieve a packet delivery fraction close
     to 100% without end-to-end retransmission (which is not acceptable
     for real-time traffic such as voice).

  2. Link-layer notification is usually available on commercially 
     available 802.11 cards (e.g., Cisco Aironet).

Regards,
Richard




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Hi,

I had a couple of questions about multirate support of IEEE 802.11. I
will be gratefuil if someone can provide pointers etc...

(*) I know that the PHY preamble and headers are all sent at a basic rate
(1Mbps?). Is the RTS/CTS exchange also done at the basic rate ?

(*)....if not then how do other overhearing nodes latch onto the
RTS/CTS.. ?

Thanks,
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On a similar note....does anyone know (or has!!) how to implement
multirate support for IEEE 802.11 in ns....???

-Vikram


> At 10:42 PM 1/28/2002 -0500, Yi Lv wrote:
> >Dear All:
> >
> >I am wondering if there's some network simulator that includes the
> >shadowing in the propagation model. As i know, GloMoSim, ns-2 and OPNET
> >all do not inlcude shadowing, while they have added or are going to add
> >multipath fading. Is that because shadowing is not an main factor in
> >ad-hoc network environment? Or is it hard to simulate?
> Yi:
> 
> I just doublechecked and a shadowing model exists in recent ns2 release, in addition to the add-on multipath models. Shadowing is an important factor, how important it is would depend on the scenario (e.g., intrabuilding) and transmission parameters being modeled (its physics dependent).
> 
> 
> 
> >Thanks a lot!
> >BR/Yi Lu
> 
> 
> 

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> 
> However, speaking in terms of applications requirements, it 
> seems to me
> that the analogy of a manet on equal terms as an "Ethernet" 
> may be more
> appropriate, 

I think it really depends on the applications and the context.  For small
stub networks this may be a reasonable view.

But generally I think the analogy of viewing a manet as an Ethernet is
flawed.  I think that by default a limited broadcast should not extend
beyond reach of nodes receiving the broadcast, and routers should not
rebroadcast, generally in keeping with RFC1812.  An application wishing to
create an Ethernet-like behaviour out of a manet may utilize the manet
flooding service we've been discussing.  It could encapsulate data for
flooding, and at each step in the flooding process the receiving routers
could receive and optionally process/drop the decapsulated packets in
addition to continuing with the flooding behavior.

So...if the WG is content to observe 1812 in this fashion, and implement the
flooding behavior over top in a variety of fashions (up to protocol
designers), I think we are heading towards agreement on the basics of a
service definition.

-Scott


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Richard/All:

I ran some example OLSR performance curves vs. AODV to check against findings recently presented at the Salt Lake IETF.  I used the same scenarios and cmu tools and was most interested initially in the static topology results since my early OLSR results were very different from those presented.

I posted one OLSR /AODV example output at http://protean.itd.nrl.navy.mil/manet/olsrstatic.pdf
I also used fixed scales to plot since I believe autoscaling plots can overexaggerate the difference s in performance between protocols

In the 100 node case, Ogier's results have OLSR never obtaining more than 65% packet delivery or so.  My results show it achieving close to 100% packet delivery for the lower loading case and retaining reasonable performance as loading increases (it even beat the AODV model with link layer notification in this static example)...yes mobility is more interesting and OLSR degrades, but I am here trying to independently reproduce snapshots of the experiments you presented.

Richard, I feel some of protocol points being raised are valid but I did want to present some results I obtained from running some trials that don't seem to match up with IETF presented results.  I will try and produce some additional mobility curves and post them as well, my initial mobility results for OLSR (Aalborg) also look much better than you presented at the last meeting...(I know I mentioned alot about potential porting problems with jitter, event handlers,etc in the linux based source code you were working with)...not sure any of the differences could be caused by configuration or implementation issues but there must be some differences.

In addition, we have almost completed some other work that is independently developing an OLSR ns2 implementation with optional link layer notification and faster localized MPR state repairing.  This work was being done prior to recent discussions, but I thought I'd mention it since people are discussing it.

-joe


At 11:58 AM 1/29/2002 -0800, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:
>I noticed that OLSR allows triggered TC messages to be sent in response 
>to link-layer notification.  Since these are full (not differential)
>TC messages, I would expect that this will create a lot of additional
>control traffic if link-layer notification is used in highly mobile 
>networks with a large number of streams.  However, the simulation
>study posted a few days (comparing OLSR to AODV) does not use link-layer 
>notification (resulting in a packet delivery fraction that is often 
>less than 50%), and the ns-2 code for OLSR available from the INRIA 
>site does not provide link-layer notification (as does the available 
>AODV code and the available TBRPF code at www.erg.sri.com/projects/tbrpf).
>
>I think it is important to conduct simulations that use link-layer 
>notification for the following reasons:
>
>  1. It is the only way to achieve a packet delivery fraction close
>     to 100% without end-to-end retransmission (which is not acceptable
>     for real-time traffic such as voice).
>
>  2. Link-layer notification is usually available on commercially 
>     available 802.11 cards (e.g., Cisco Aironet).
>
>Regards,
>Richard




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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Raymond Wang wrote:
Hi, Ray:

I just checked the ns-2.1b8a. Thanks!

Here are some more questions.

1. Shadowing was modulated in the free space path loss, rather than a
combination of free space path loss or two-ray ground path loss, with a
breaking-point distance d0, which was implemented in class TwoRayGround
without shadowing. Why changing the path loss model in the case of
shadowing?

2. As we know, shadowing is caused by large obstructions such as buildings
and hills. Is that reasonable only adding a random variable with
log-normal distribution, while not taking the terrain infomation into
account? In other words, seems that there's no such information in the
scenario, right?

3. Still not see any multipath fading model in this version, does anybody
have idea about how important it is for the performance of upper layer
protocol?

4. I am a new comer in the simulation, and i am wondering if there's some
report that indicated how the result of simulation fits the real case, if
there's some real product that has been taken field test, so that i could
get more confidence doing that, since there are so many issues which might
seem not realistic.

Thanks a lot!

BR/yi lu


> Yi,
> 
> I am using ns-2.1b8a which comes with shadowing support.  To answer your 
> question below whether it is hard to simulate, it's pretty simple to 
> simulate large-scale fading for any packet-level simulator.  The real 
> challenge is trying to simulate bit-level effects like small-scale fading.
> 
> Ray
> 
> At 09:43 AM 1/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Raymond Wang wrote:
> >Hi, Ray:
> >
> >Thanks for your reply!
> >Actually, i didn't really get into the simulators GloMoSim and OPNET, but
> >i did see through the code of ns-2 and didn't find anything regarding
> >lognormal shadowing. The version i read was ns 2.1b4a and cmu extension
> >1.1.2, could you please designate the version that added the shadowing, if
> >any?
> >
> >Thanks a lot!
> >Yi Lu
> >
> >
> > > Hi Yi,
> > >
> > > Not sure where you got that info, but as far as I
> > > know, GloMoSim/Qualnet, ns-2, and OPNET all support
> > > lognormal shadowing, aka "large-scale" fading which is
> > > usually on the order of distances of ~100 m.  For most
> > > of the foreseeable applications of ad hoc networks,
> > > lognormal shadowing will be much less of a factor than
> > > path loss and multipath, or "small-scale", fading
> > > since these applications will generally be on a small
> > > scale (i.e. <= 100 m) or, in many military apps, in an
> > > environment where there is little to no shadowing.
> > >
> > > Ray
> > >
> > > --- Yi Lv <luyy@ececs.uc.edu> wrote:
> > > > Dear All:
> > > >
> > > > I am wondering if there's some network simulator
> > > > that includes the
> > > > shadowing in the propagation model. As i know,
> > > > GloMoSim, ns-2 and OPNET
> > > > all do not inlcude shadowing, while they have added
> > > > or are going to add
> > > > multipath fading. Is that because shadowing is not
> > > > an main factor in
> > > > ad-hoc network environment? Or is it hard to
> > > > simulate?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks a lot!
> > > > BR/Yi Lu
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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Hello,

> I had a couple of questions about multirate support of IEEE 802.11. I
> will be gratefuil if someone can provide pointers etc...
> 
> (*) I know that the PHY preamble and headers are all sent at a basic rate
> (1Mbps?). Is the RTS/CTS exchange also done at the basic rate ?
> 
> (*)....if not then how do other overhearing nodes latch onto the
> RTS/CTS.. ?

Yes, they are. (or maybe at 2 Mbps, I can't remember exactly)
But as I know the some manufacturers sometimes break the standard, use
short preambles, and higher RTS/CTS bitrates to reduce the overhead,
which is really high in the basic case. 
In that case older cards can't communicate, because they can't decode
the CCK "modulation".
Carrier detection still works in this case.

With RTS/CTS mechanism the measured throughput between two nodes
communicating at 11Mbps is smaller by 20% than without RTS/CTS (1500byte
MTU).
Is there any simulation or measurement results that proove the necessity
of RTS/CTS ?

Best regards,
Ferenc


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----- Original Message -----
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>
> Since HELLOs are differential in TBRPF, this can be done with a
> relatively small increase in overhead.  However, in OSPF and OLSR,
> since each HELLO contains all neighbor IDs, this would increase
> overhead a lot if each node has a large number of neighbors.
>
Richard, again, OLSR HELLOs can be partial, you only need to refresh all
neighbors within a certain period, and you can increase the hello rate for
fast moving node. I think Laurent mentioned this to you before. However
don't forget that even the overhead of an empty HELLO can be non negligible.
In IEEE 802.11 the MAC-PHY overhead is around 192 usec (with option to 92
usec) which at 11 Mbps corresponds to approximately 60 IPv4 addresses.

Philippe



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Hi,

I have a problem to plot the data streams from ns trace format.
How I convert the ns trace to xgraph or matlab??
I search for a tutorial but i find nothing.
I want to plot TCP throughput, goodput and other related data streams.

PLEASE HELP ME!

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Hi Vikram,

Basically, RTS/CTS and all other control frames (e.g., ACK) frames
should be transmitted at one of rates in the BSS Basic Rate Set.
In the typical 802.11b network, the BSS Basic Rate Set is 1 & 2 Mbps.
That means RTS/CTS will be transmitted at either 1 or 2 Mbps typically.

At the same time, the BSS Basic Rate Set is really up to the station,
which initiates each particular BSS, which would be an AP in case of 
infrastructure BSS,
and the first station in case of independent BSS used for MANET, I 
believe.

BTW, the BSS Basic Rate Set includes all the rates, which should be 
supported
(i.e., receivable and transmittable) by all the stations in the particular 
BSS.
That is, a station which does not support any of the rates in the BSS 
Basic Rate Set
will not be allowed to be part of the BSS.
This will ensure that all the stations will receive all the control frames 
including RTS/CTS.

When 802.11g (a higher rate version of .11b) comes to the market, the 
whole 802.11b rates, i.e.,
1, 2, 5.5, and 11 Mbps, may be used for the BSS Basic Rate Set, in many 
cases.

FYI.

Sunghyun

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Senior Member Research Staff
WiCAN - Wireless Communications and Networking Department
Philips Research USA, Briarcliff Manor, New York, USA
Tel: (914) 945 6506    Fax: (914) 945 6580
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Vikram Kanodia <kanodia@rice.edu>
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Hi,

I had a couple of questions about multirate support of IEEE 802.11. I
will be gratefuil if someone can provide pointers etc...

(*) I know that the PHY preamble and headers are all sent at a basic rate
(1Mbps?). Is the RTS/CTS exchange also done at the basic rate ?

(*)....if not then how do other overhearing nodes latch onto the
RTS/CTS.. ?

Thanks,
-Vikram


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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi Vikram,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Basically, RTS/CTS and all other control frames (e.g., ACK) frames</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">should be transmitted at one of rates in the BSS Basic Rate Set.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In the typical 802.11b network, the BSS Basic Rate Set is 1 &amp; 2 Mbps.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">That means RTS/CTS will be transmitted at either 1 or 2 Mbps typically.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">At the same time, the BSS Basic Rate Set is really up to the station,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">which initiates each particular BSS, which would be an AP in case of infrastructure BSS,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">and the first station in case of independent BSS used for MANET, I believe.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">BTW, the BSS Basic Rate Set includes all the rates, which should be supported</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">(i.e., receivable and transmittable) by all the stations in the particular BSS.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">That is, a station which does not support any of the rates in the BSS Basic Rate Set</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">will not be allowed to be part of the BSS.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This will ensure that all the stations will receive all the control frames including RTS/CTS.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">When 802.11g (a higher rate version of .11b) comes to the market, the whole 802.11b rates, i.e.,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">1, 2, 5.5, and 11 Mbps, may be used for the BSS Basic Rate Set, in many cases.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">FYI.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Sunghyun<br>
<br>
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Sunghyun Choi, Ph.D.<br>
Senior Member Research Staff<br>
WiCAN - Wireless Communications and Networking Department<br>
Philips Research USA, Briarcliff Manor, New York, USA<br>
Tel: (914) 945 6506 &nbsp; &nbsp;Fax: (914) 945 6580<br>
E-mail: sunghyun.choi@philips.com<br>
URL 1: http://www.philabs.research.philips.com/~szc - Philips internal<br>
URL 2: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~shchoi - Personal Homepage<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
I had a couple of questions about multirate support of IEEE 802.11. I<br>
will be gratefuil if someone can provide pointers etc...<br>
<br>
(*) I know that the PHY preamble and headers are all sent at a basic rate<br>
(1Mbps?). Is the RTS/CTS exchange also done at the basic rate ?<br>
<br>
(*)....if not then how do other overhearing nodes latch onto the<br>
RTS/CTS.. ?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
-Vikram<br>
<br>
<br>
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Department of ECE, Rice University | 713 348 3786 (O)| 713 664 5650(H)<br>
WWW: http://www.ece.rice.edu/~kanodia <br>
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According to the standerd, the control frame data rate may be different
from the data frame rate, and the control frame rate is one among the
basic rate set. For example, in 802.11a, the basic rate set is {6, 12,
24} Mbps. One example of settings is to let the control rate for IEEE
802.11a be 24Mbps if the data rate 24Mbps, 6Mbps if the data rate
<12Mbps, otherwise, is 12Mbps. 

RTS and CTS are control frames, and they are used as RTS-CTS-DATA-ACK.

RTS/TCS is an option of IEEE 802.11 to reduce overhead. However, in a
infrastructure with Ethernet presented as the distributed systemt (DS),
the packet size normally 1500Bytes. In an ad hoc network, the packet
size can be expected larger. 

Regards,

Yang


--- Ferenc Kubinszky <Ferenc.Kubinszky@eth.ericsson.se> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > I had a couple of questions about multirate support of IEEE 802.11.
> I
> > will be gratefuil if someone can provide pointers etc...
> > 
> > (*) I know that the PHY preamble and headers are all sent at a
> basic rate
> > (1Mbps?). Is the RTS/CTS exchange also done at the basic rate ?
> > 
> > (*)....if not then how do other overhearing nodes latch onto the
> > RTS/CTS.. ?
> 
> Yes, they are. (or maybe at 2 Mbps, I can't remember exactly)
> But as I know the some manufacturers sometimes break the standard,
> use
> short preambles, and higher RTS/CTS bitrates to reduce the overhead,
> which is really high in the basic case. 
> In that case older cards can't communicate, because they can't decode
> the CCK "modulation".
> Carrier detection still works in this case.
> 
> With RTS/CTS mechanism the measured throughput between two nodes
> communicating at 11Mbps is smaller by 20% than without RTS/CTS
> (1500byte
> MTU).
> Is there any simulation or measurement results that proove the
> necessity
> of RTS/CTS ?
> 
> Best regards,
> Ferenc


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Dear Richard,

As mentioned by Philippe the overhead of sending a packet is quite
high and makes differential updates significantly less attractive.

But let me try to summarize the advantages of partial HELLOs as used
in OLSR. Notice for example that partial HELLOs allow to make
differential updates since you can advertise a new neighbor at any
time (and also the loss of a neighbor thanks to the LOST_LINK status).
Indeed, partial HELLOs is a very flexible way of advertising
neighbors.

Let me recall the basic principles of partial HELLOs :
- the rule is: any neighbor must be advertised at least once in every
   HELLO_INTERVAL period of time
- the list of neighbors can be advertised in any number of HELLO
   messages during that period of time
- this allows to avoid fragmentation of HELLO messages if their size
   is higher than maximum size of MAC packets (fragmentation should be
   avoided because the loss of one packet will prevent from reading
   other packets)

Link breakage detection is a sensitive part of a MANet and there are
two main ways of doing that in OLSR :
- either you can get link layer notification, and if a node gets a
   link failure notification it immediately sends a HELLO message
   with LOST_LINK status and a correcting TC message if necessary,
- either you can't and then you rely on link hysteresis.
   
Neighbor sensing with link hysteresis is a much more advanced way of
testing links than counting the number of received HELLOs during a
certain period of time. With link hysteresis, the quality of a link is
estimated. If the quality is higher than HYST_THRESHOLD_HIGH, the link
becomes valid. When the quality becomes lower than HYST_THRESHOLD_LOW,
the link is then considered pending and is advertised as lost. Setting
HYST_THRESHOLD_HIGH strictly higher than HYST_THRESHOLD_LOW allows to
cope with dangling links.

If power level is available from the link layer, it can be used for
estimating the link quality and anticipating link breakage. 

When no information is available from the link layer, link hysteresis
uses the reception and loss of control messages for estimating the
link quality. Each time a control message is received, the link
quality is increased and each time a control message is lost, the link
quality is decreased.  The sequence numbers of control messages allow
to detect loss of messages. 

The loss of any control message is a valuable information for
detecting link breakage and link hysteresis allows to do that.

In conclusion, I would say that partial HELLOs together with link
hysteresis is a better alternative than differential HELLOs.

laurent


ogier@erg.sri.com writes:
 > 
 > Laurent,
 > 
 > > Dear Richard,
 > > 
 > > I agree that OLSR is an optimized adaptation of OSPF. But I don't follow
 > > your claim about reporting neighbors in TBRPF:
 > > 
 > >  >   - In OSPF, each HELLO contains the ID of every neighbor, whereas
 > >  >     TBRPF uses much smaller differential HELLOs, which report only 
 > >  >     *changes* in neighbor states.
 > > 
 > > As I understand your draft, all neighbors are advertised regularly in
 > > every periodic topology update message (every
 > > PER_UPDATE_INTERVAL). Indeed I had a hard time for figuring that out
 > > from your pseudo-code.
 > > 
 > > No matter whether you advertise the full list of neighbors in HELLOs
 > > or in TOPOLOGY UPDATES, the overhead is there. What is the right
 > > period for advertising this list is a tuning issue. 
 > > 
 > > laurent
 > 
 > The main tuning issue regarding HELLOs (whether you are talking
 > about TBRPF, OLSR, or OSPF) is that if HELLOs are sent more
 > frequently, then the detection of link failures/breakages can be
 > done more quickly.  Thus it would be good to send HELLOs more
 > frequently (e.g., every 0.5 sec) if nodes are moving fast.
 > 
 > Since HELLOs are differential in TBRPF, this can be done with a
 > relatively small increase in overhead.  However, in OSPF and OLSR,
 > since each HELLO contains all neighbor IDs, this would increase
 > overhead a lot if each node has a large number of neighbors.
 > 
 > In TBRPF, each node reports links to all neighbors in periodic
 > topology updates, which are sent less frequently than HELLOs,
 > just as periodic TC messages are sent less frequently than
 > HELLOs in OLSR.  For example, in a network with very fast moving
 > nodes, HELLOs might be sent every 0.5 second while periodic topology
 > updates are sent every 5 seconds.  Therefore, TBRPF saves a lot of
 > overhead by reporting links to neighbors less frequently.
 > (In OLSR, each node needs to advertise its neighbor set more
 > frequently because this information is needed to select MPRs.)
 > 
 > Another advantage of reporting links to neighbors in topology updates 
 > instead of HELLOs is that (unlike OLSR) neighbor sensing performs ONLY 
 > neighbor sensing.  Thus, in TBRPF, neighbor sensing is completely modular 
 > and separate from topology discovery. In OLSR, each node reports its links 
 > to all neighbors (and also its MPRs) in HELLOs.  Note that OSPF also
 > uses HELLOs only for neighbor sensing (even though the HELLOs are
 > not differential). I really think this is a better approach.
 > 
 > A related issue is that TBRPF also uses differential topology updates
 > (unlike OLSR) so that a link failure (e.g., detected through link-layer
 > notification) can be quickly reported with minimal overhead to all 
 > nodes that are affected by the failure.
 > 
 > I noticed that OLSR allows triggered TC messages to be sent in response 
 > to link-layer notification.  Since these are full (not differential)
 > TC messages, I would expect that this will create a lot of additional
 > control traffic if link-layer notification is used in highly mobile 
 > networks with a large number of streams.  However, the simulation
 > study posted a few days (comparing OLSR to AODV) does not use link-layer 
 > notification (resulting in a packet delivery fraction that is often 
 > less than 50%), and the ns-2 code for OLSR available from the INRIA 
 > site does not provide link-layer notification (as does the available 
 > AODV code and the available TBRPF code at www.erg.sri.com/projects/tbrpf).
 > 
 > I think it is important to conduct simulations that use link-layer 
 > notification for the following reasons:
 > 
 >   1. It is the only way to achieve a packet delivery fraction close
 >      to 100% without end-to-end retransmission (which is not acceptable
 >      for real-time traffic such as voice).
 > 
 >   2. Link-layer notification is usually available on commercially 
 >      available 802.11 cards (e.g., Cisco Aironet).
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Richard
 > 
 > 


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Joe,

> Richard/All:
> 
> I ran some example OLSR performance curves vs. AODV to check against findings recently presented at the Salt Lake IETF.  I used the s
ame scenarios and cmu tools and was most interested initially in the static topology results since my early OLSR results were very diff
erent from those presented.
> 
> I posted one OLSR /AODV example output at http://protean.itd.nrl.navy.mil/manet/olsrstatic.pdf
> I also used fixed scales to plot since I believe autoscaling plots can overexaggerate the difference s in performance between protoco
ls
> 
> In the 100 node case, Ogier's results have OLSR never obtaining more than 65% packet delivery or so.  My results show it achieving cl
ose to 100% packet delivery for the lower loading case and retaining reasonable performance as loading increases (it even beat the AODV
 model with link layer notification in this static example)...yes mobility is more interesting and OLSR degrades, but I am here trying 
to independently reproduce snapshots of the experiments you presented.
> 
> Richard, I feel some of protocol points being raised are valid but I did want to present some results I obtained from running some tr
ials that don't seem to match up with IETF presented results.  I will try and produce some additional mobility curves and post them as 
well, my initial mobility results for OLSR (Aalborg) also look much better than you presented at the last meeting...(I know I mentioned
 alot about potential porting problems with jitter, event handlers,etc in the linux based source code you were working with)...not sure
 any of the differences could be caused by configuration or implementation issues but there must be some differences.

Yes, there must be some differences, since the two versions of the code were written by 
different people.  I will make some effort to determine the reason for the different results, 
but I am also re-running the experiments using the ns-2 code available from the INRIA site.  
Is the Aalborg code exactly the same as the ns-2 code available from the INRIA site?  
Are you using the WaveLAN 802.11 model with 2 Mbps bandwidth?

Richard


> In addition, we have almost completed some other work that is independently developing an OLSR ns2 implementation with optional link 
layer notification and faster localized MPR state repairing.  This work was being done prior to recent discussions, but I thought I'd m
ention it since people are discussing it.
> 
> -joe
> 
> 
> At 11:58 AM 1/29/2002 -0800, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:
> >I noticed that OLSR allows triggered TC messages to be sent in response 
> >to link-layer notification.  Since these are full (not differential)
> >TC messages, I would expect that this will create a lot of additional
> >control traffic if link-layer notification is used in highly mobile 
> >networks with a large number of streams.  However, the simulation
> >study posted a few days (comparing OLSR to AODV) does not use link-layer 
> >notification (resulting in a packet delivery fraction that is often 
> >less than 50%), and the ns-2 code for OLSR available from the INRIA 
> >site does not provide link-layer notification (as does the available 
> >AODV code and the available TBRPF code at www.erg.sri.com/projects/tbrpf).
> >
> >I think it is important to conduct simulations that use link-layer 
> >notification for the following reasons:
> >
> >  1. It is the only way to achieve a packet delivery fraction close
> >     to 100% without end-to-end retransmission (which is not acceptable
> >     for real-time traffic such as voice).
> >
> >  2. Link-layer notification is usually available on commercially 
> >     available 802.11 cards (e.g., Cisco Aironet).
> >
> >Regards,
> >Richard
> 
> 


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Michael:

There are lots of possible tools for this and some very specific detailed tcp ones that are good.  The ns distribution also has some example scripts.  

As another tool for your bag of tricks, you could look at something we developed, trpr, which has trace parsing and statistical analysis routines and acts as a front end to gnuplot.  We use it to plot drec and tcpdump outputs both in real-time and non-realtime modes.  We recently added an ns capability recently as well which may work for you. There is a description, source code, and user's guide here.
 
http://proteantools.pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil/
and a source code project site at
http://pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/proteantools/

-joe

At 02:52 PM 1/30/2002 +0100, Michael Sessinghaus wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a problem to plot the data streams from ns trace format.
>How I convert the ns trace to xgraph or matlab??
>I search for a tutorial but i find nothing.
>I want to plot TCP throughput, goodput and other related data streams.




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Joe,

> Richard/All:
> 
> I ran some example OLSR performance curves vs. AODV to check against findings recently presented at the Sa
lt Lake IETF.  I used the same scenarios and cmu tools and was most interested initially in the static topol
ogy results since my early OLSR results were very different from those presented.
> 
> I posted one OLSR /AODV example output at http://protean.itd.nrl.navy.mil/manet/olsrstatic.pdf
> I also used fixed scales to plot since I believe autoscaling plots can overexaggerate the difference s in 
performance between protocols
> 
> In the 100 node case, Ogier's results have OLSR never obtaining more than 65% packet delivery or so.  My r
esults show it achieving close to 100% packet delivery for the lower loading case and retaining reasonable p
erformance as loading increases (it even beat the AODV model with link layer notification in this static exa
mple)...yes mobility is more interesting and OLSR degrades, but I am here trying to independently reproduce 
snapshots of the experiments you presented.

We did not run simulations for the static case with 40 sources (which is what you are using)
but we did run 20 m/s with 40 sources, and in this case TBRPF also performed significantly
better than AODV.  These results can be found at the TBRPF site: 
http://www.erg.sri.com/projects/tbrpf/
However, I should note that AODV did not use local repair (but both AODV
and TBRPF used link-layer notification). 

I am thinking of using three different sets of assumptions in simulation experiments:

1. With link-layer notification, buffering of data packets at intermediate nodes allowed
   (In this case, AODV would use local repair.)
2. With link-layer notification, buffering of data packets at intermediate nodes NOT allowed
   (In this case, AODV would not use local repair since this requires buffering at intermediate nodes.)
3. No link-layer notification, buffering of data packets at intermediate nodes NOT allowed.

Any comments?

Richard




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At 12:04 PM 1/30/2002 -0800, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:

>Joe,
>
>> Richard/All:
>> 
>> I ran some example OLSR performance curves vs. AODV to check against findings recently presented at the Salt Lake IETF.  I used the s
>ame scenarios and cmu tools and was most interested initially in the static topology results since my early OLSR results were very diff
>erent from those presented.
>> 
>> I posted one OLSR /AODV example output at http://protean.itd.nrl.navy.mil/manet/olsrstatic.pdf
>> I also used fixed scales to plot since I believe autoscaling plots can overexaggerate the difference s in performance between protoco
>ls
>> 
>> In the 100 node case, Ogier's results have OLSR never obtaining more than 65% packet delivery or so.  My results show it achieving cl
>ose to 100% packet delivery for the lower loading case and retaining reasonable performance as loading increases (it even beat the AODV
> model with link layer notification in this static example)...yes mobility is more interesting and OLSR degrades, but I am here trying 
>to independently reproduce snapshots of the experiments you presented.
>> 
>> Richard, I feel some of protocol points being raised are valid but I did want to present some results I obtained from running some tr
>ials that don't seem to match up with IETF presented results.  I will try and produce some additional mobility curves and post them as 
>well, my initial mobility results for OLSR (Aalborg) also look much better than you presented at the last meeting...(I know I mentioned
> alot about potential porting problems with jitter, event handlers,etc in the linux based source code you were working with)...not sure
> any of the differences could be caused by configuration or implementation issues but there must be some differences.
>
>Yes, there must be some differences, since the two versions of the code were written by 
>different people.  I will make some effort to determine the reason for the different results, 
>but I am also re-running the experiments using the ns-2 code available from the INRIA site.  
>Is the Aalborg code exactly the same as the ns-2 code available from the INRIA site?  

I don't know that. Perhaps one of the developer's and releasing agents could chime in.

>Are you using the WaveLAN 802.11 model with 2 Mbps bandwidth?

Yes




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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ogier@erg.sri.com>
> To: <manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
> Cc: <ogier@erg.sri.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Manet flooding / broadcasting....
>
>
> >
> > Since HELLOs are differential in TBRPF, this can be done with a
> > relatively small increase in overhead.  However, in OSPF and OLSR,
> > since each HELLO contains all neighbor IDs, this would increase
> > overhead a lot if each node has a large number of neighbors.
> >
> Richard, again, OLSR HELLOs can be partial, you only need to refresh all
> neighbors within a certain period, and you can increase the hello rate for
> fast moving node. I think Laurent mentioned this to you before.

Philippe,

Yes, I know that HELLOs can be partial and that each neighbor must be 
included in at least one HELLO every HELLO interval, but unless there 
are too many neighbor IDs to fit into one packet, normally OLSR uses one 
full HELLO per HELLO interval.  (Just check the source code.)

But this does not affect my argument.  What I am saying is that OLSR 
must include each neighbor in a HELLO every HELLO_INTERVAL, whereas 
TBRPF includes each neighbor only in periodic topology updates, which are 
less frequent (e.g., 10 times less frequent if the HELLO_INTERVAL is 0.5 s 
and the update period is 5 s).

It is the HELLO_INTERVAL that determines how quickly a failed link is 
detected, e.g., if no HELLO is received within 3 * HELLO_INTERVAL, then 
the neighbor is declared to be lost.

I also know that OLSR can use differential HELLOs,
since it has recently added the LOST_LINK status (which TBRPF has
had since version 01).  *But this does not change the requirement that 
in OLSR each neighbor ID must be included in at least one HELLO every 
HELLO_INTERVAL.*  You can increase HELLO_INTERVAL, but then it
would take longer to detect a lost neighbor.  OLSR could be *modified* 
so that each neighbor ID is reported less frequently than HELLO_INTERVAL
(as in TBRPF), but I am not sure how this would affect MPR computation.

> However don't forget that even the overhead of an empty HELLO can be non 
> negligible.  In IEEE 802.11 the MAC-PHY overhead is around 192 usec (with 
> option to 92 usec) which at 11 Mbps corresponds to approximately 60 IPv4 
> addresses.

Yes, this is a good point.  With the 92 usec option, this becomes about 30 
IPv4 addresses (or router IDs).  So if a node has 30 neighbors, then a full 
HELLO is about twice as big as an empty HELLO.  I think that's significant.

There are lots of differences between TBRPF and OLSR that can affect
performance, and we have already discussed many of these.
But it is difficult to predict how these differences affect performance.
That's what simulations are for.

Regards,
Richard



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Dear Richard,

Please take a look at previous mail about partial HELLOs in OLSR. I
have to correct some points you mention here about OLSR that are wrong.

laurent

ogier@erg.sri.com writes:
 > 
 > > ----- Original Message -----
 > > From: <ogier@erg.sri.com>
 > > To: <manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
 > > Cc: <ogier@erg.sri.com>
 > > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:58 PM
 > > Subject: Re: Manet flooding / broadcasting....
 > >
 > >
 > > >
 > > > Since HELLOs are differential in TBRPF, this can be done with a
 > > > relatively small increase in overhead.  However, in OSPF and OLSR,
 > > > since each HELLO contains all neighbor IDs, this would increase
 > > > overhead a lot if each node has a large number of neighbors.
 > > >
 > > Richard, again, OLSR HELLOs can be partial, you only need to refresh all
 > > neighbors within a certain period, and you can increase the hello rate for
 > > fast moving node. I think Laurent mentioned this to you before.
 > 
 > Philippe,
 > 
 > Yes, I know that HELLOs can be partial and that each neighbor must be 
 > included in at least one HELLO every HELLO interval, but unless there 
 > are too many neighbor IDs to fit into one packet, normally OLSR uses one 
 > full HELLO per HELLO interval.  (Just check the source code.)
 > 

In the released code yes but the draft allows to do differently.

 > But this does not affect my argument.  What I am saying is that OLSR 
 > must include each neighbor in a HELLO every HELLO_INTERVAL, whereas 
 > TBRPF includes each neighbor only in periodic topology updates, which are 
 > less frequent (e.g., 10 times less frequent if the HELLO_INTERVAL is 0.5 s 
 > and the update period is 5 s).
 > 
 > It is the HELLO_INTERVAL that determines how quickly a failed link is 
 > detected, e.g., if no HELLO is received within 3 * HELLO_INTERVAL, then 
 > the neighbor is declared to be lost.
 > 

No, with link hysteresis, you can detect the loss of packet also through
missing sequence numbers.

 > I also know that OLSR can use differential HELLOs,
 > since it has recently added the LOST_LINK status (which TBRPF has
 > had since version 01).  *But this does not change the requirement that 

No, LOST_LINK status is mentioned since version 02 of the OLSR draft
and was included in HIPERLAN type 1 standard, so it is an old idea.

 > in OLSR each neighbor ID must be included in at least one HELLO every 
 > HELLO_INTERVAL.*  You can increase HELLO_INTERVAL, but then it
 > would take longer to detect a lost neighbor.  OLSR could be *modified* 
 > so that each neighbor ID is reported less frequently than HELLO_INTERVAL
 > (as in TBRPF), but I am not sure how this would affect MPR computation.
 > 
 > > However don't forget that even the overhead of an empty HELLO can be non 
 > > negligible.  In IEEE 802.11 the MAC-PHY overhead is around 192 usec (with 
 > > option to 92 usec) which at 11 Mbps corresponds to approximately 60 IPv4 
 > > addresses.
 > 
 > Yes, this is a good point.  With the 92 usec option, this becomes about 30 
 > IPv4 addresses (or router IDs).  So if a node has 30 neighbors, then a full 
 > HELLO is about twice as big as an empty HELLO.  I think that's significant.
 > 
 > There are lots of differences between TBRPF and OLSR that can affect
 > performance, and we have already discussed many of these.
 > But it is difficult to predict how these differences affect performance.
 > That's what simulations are for.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Richard
 > 


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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Joe Macker wrote:

> At 12:04 PM 1/30/2002 -0800, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:

<SNIP>
 
> >different people.  I will make some effort to determine the reason for the different results, 
> >but I am also re-running the experiments using the ns-2 code available from the INRIA site.  
> >Is the Aalborg code exactly the same as the ns-2 code available from the INRIA site?  
> 
> I don't know that. Perhaps one of the developer's and releasing agents
> could chime in.
> 

The ns2-code, currently available from the INRIA www-site, is equivalent
with what Joe refers to as the Aalborg code.


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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:

> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <ogier@erg.sri.com>
> > To: <manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
> > Cc: <ogier@erg.sri.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: Manet flooding / broadcasting....
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Since HELLOs are differential in TBRPF, this can be done with a
> > > relatively small increase in overhead.  However, in OSPF and OLSR,
> > > since each HELLO contains all neighbor IDs, this would increase
> > > overhead a lot if each node has a large number of neighbors.
> > >
> > Richard, again, OLSR HELLOs can be partial, you only need to refresh all
> > neighbors within a certain period, and you can increase the hello rate for
> > fast moving node. I think Laurent mentioned this to you before.
> 
> Philippe,
> 
> Yes, I know that HELLOs can be partial and that each neighbor must be 
> included in at least one HELLO every HELLO interval, but unless there 
> are too many neighbor IDs to fit into one packet, normally OLSR uses one 
> full HELLO per HELLO interval.  (Just check the source code.)

Richard,

Please keep seperate implementation choises from protocol specifications. 

In the current implementation, it may be chosen to use full HELLO's. It
is also chosen not to use link-layer notifications. However, as is
mentioned elsewhere on the list (by Laurent), another possible choise
would be to include link-layer notifications and trigger partial HELLO's
as a result hereof.

While not provided by the implementation you are using, it cirtainly is
permitted by the protocol specification.

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There is a paper, including comparisons between AODV and OLSR: 'The
Optimized Link State Routing Protocol, Evaluation through Experiments and
Simulation' T.H. Clausen, G. Hansen, L. Christensen and G. Behrmann, IEEE
Symposium on "Wireless Personal Mobile Communications", september 2001.

It can be found here: http://menetou.inria.fr/olsr/

--thomas
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, MEDDOUR Djamal Eddine thesard FTRD/DAC/LAN wrote:

> hi all body
> is there any new studies wich made a comparaison between all routing
> protocols (espicially AODV and OLSR) .
> thank you 
> best regards
>  
> 

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Laurent,

> Dear Richard,
> 
> Please take a look at previous mail about partial HELLOs in OLSR. I
> have to correct some points you mention here about OLSR that are wrong.

See below.  

> 
> laurent
> 
> ogier@erg.sri.com writes:
>  > 
>  > > ----- Original Message -----
>  > > From: <ogier@erg.sri.com>
>  > > To: <manet@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
>  > > Cc: <ogier@erg.sri.com>
>  > > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:58 PM
>  > > Subject: Re: Manet flooding / broadcasting....
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > >
>  > > > Since HELLOs are differential in TBRPF, this can be done with a
>  > > > relatively small increase in overhead.  However, in OSPF and OLSR,
>  > > > since each HELLO contains all neighbor IDs, this would increase
>  > > > overhead a lot if each node has a large number of neighbors.
>  > > >
>  > > Richard, again, OLSR HELLOs can be partial, you only need to refresh all
>  > > neighbors within a certain period, and you can increase the hello rate for
>  > > fast moving node. I think Laurent mentioned this to you before.
>  > 
>  > Philippe,
>  > 
>  > Yes, I know that HELLOs can be partial and that each neighbor must be 
>  > included in at least one HELLO every HELLO interval, but unless there 
>  > are too many neighbor IDs to fit into one packet, normally OLSR uses one 
>  > full HELLO per HELLO interval.  (Just check the source code.)
>  > 
> 
> In the released code yes but the draft allows to do differently.
> 
>  > But this does not affect my argument.  What I am saying is that OLSR 
>  > must include each neighbor in a HELLO every HELLO_INTERVAL, whereas 
>  > TBRPF includes each neighbor only in periodic topology updates, which are 
>  > less frequent (e.g., 10 times less frequent if the HELLO_INTERVAL is 0.5 s 
>  > and the update period is 5 s).
>  > 
>  > It is the HELLO_INTERVAL that determines how quickly a failed link is 
>  > detected, e.g., if no HELLO is received within 3 * HELLO_INTERVAL, then 
>  > the neighbor is declared to be lost.
>  > 
> 
> No, with link hysteresis, you can detect the loss of packet also through
> missing sequence numbers.

Right (that's why I wrote "e.g."). 
But this has no effect on my main point, which
is that differential HELLOs can save bandwidth.

>  > I also know that OLSR can use differential HELLOs,
>  > since it has recently added the LOST_LINK status (which TBRPF has
>  > had since version 01).  *But this does not change the requirement that 
>  > in OLSR each neighbor ID must be included in at least one HELLO every 
>  > HELLO_INTERVAL.*  
> 
> No, LOST_LINK status is mentioned since version 02 of the OLSR draft
> and was included in HIPERLAN type 1 standard, so it is an old idea.

You are right that OLSR *mentioned* the LOST_LINK status before,
but it did not actually use it in HELLOs.

Richard


> 
>  > in OLSR each neighbor ID must be included in at least one HELLO every 
>  > HELLO_INTERVAL.*  You can increase HELLO_INTERVAL, but then it
>  > would take longer to detect a lost neighbor.  OLSR could be *modified* 
>  > so that each neighbor ID is reported less frequently than HELLO_INTERVAL
>  > (as in TBRPF), but I am not sure how this would affect MPR computation.
>  > 
>  > > However don't forget that even the overhead of an empty HELLO can be non 
>  > > negligible.  In IEEE 802.11 the MAC-PHY overhead is around 192 usec (with 
>  > > option to 92 usec) which at 11 Mbps corresponds to approximately 60 IPv4 
>  > > addresses.
>  > 
>  > Yes, this is a good point.  With the 92 usec option, this becomes about 30 
>  > IPv4 addresses (or router IDs).  So if a node has 30 neighbors, then a full 
>  > HELLO is about twice as big as an empty HELLO.  I think that's significant.
>  > 
>  > There are lots of differences between TBRPF and OLSR that can affect
>  > performance, and we have already discussed many of these.
>  > But it is difficult to predict how these differences affect performance.
>  > That's what simulations are for.
>  > 
>  > Regards,
>  > Richard
>  > 


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Richard,

(Sorry, Richard, for sending this twice. I forgot to Cc. the manet list
 the first time. My mistake)

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:

> 
> Thomas,
> 
> > > Philippe,
> > > 
> > > Yes, I know that HELLOs can be partial and that each neighbor must be 
> > > included in at least one HELLO every HELLO interval, but unless there 
> > > are too many neighbor IDs to fit into one packet, normally OLSR uses one 
> > > full HELLO per HELLO interval.  (Just check the source code.)
> > 
> > Richard,
> > 
> > Please keep seperate implementation choises from protocol specifications. 
> > 
> > In the current implementation, it may be chosen to use full HELLO's. It
> > is also chosen not to use link-layer notifications. However, as is
> > mentioned elsewhere on the list (by Laurent), another possible choise
> > would be to include link-layer notifications and trigger partial HELLO's
> > as a result hereof.
> > 
> > While not provided by the implementation you are using, it cirtainly is
> > permitted by the protocol specification.
> 
> I guess my statement above was not clear.
> I was NOT precluding the possibility of sending partial HELLOs
> indicating LOST neighbors, in *addition* to sending one
> full HELLO per HELLO interval.
> I was just saying that, if the number of neighbors is not
> too large, they would normally be reported in a single full HELLO
> (to minimize overhead) rather than in multiple partial HELLOs.
> 

Actually, you are not even required to send any "full" HELLO's
periodically. 

Just to refresh: the rule is, that within NEIGHB_HOLD_TIME information
about each node must be transmitted at least once.

Thus, as you propose, one (correct) implementation could periodically send
"full" HELLO's and - as needed - send additional HELLO's, e.g. to indicate
status change of a link. This would be a perfectly valid implementation.

However if a neighbor has been reported in such a "non-periodic"
additional HELLO-message, it is not required to include that neighbor in
the following "periodic" HELLO-message. I.e. the "periodic" HELLO-messages
would not necessarilly be "full". This would also be a perfectly valid
implementation.

Of course I agree that, in general, it makes sense to consider the
overhead of transmitting a message on a given medium: when accessing the
medium, it makes sense to accomodate the "overhead" of doing so by
transmitting a reasonable amount of information. So a "smart" OLSR-
implementation would take advantage of the transmission of an "additional"
HELLO-message (reporting a neighbor link status change) to include
refreshing of other, non-changed links. This would then further reduce the
size of any "periodic" HELLO-messages - if not elliminate them
completely. This too would make a valid implementation.

However all this mostly concirns implementation choises, and may be
dictated by different needs in a specific network. 

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Dear Richard,

I still disagree.

ogier@erg.sri.com writes:
 > 
 > > 
 > > No, with link hysteresis, you can detect the loss of packet also through
 > > missing sequence numbers.
 > 
 > Right (that's why I wrote "e.g."). 
 > But this has no effect on my main point, which
 > is that differential HELLOs can save bandwidth.
 > 

I don't think that sending almost empty packets is a gain of bandwidth. If
you want to say I am alive, any control packet is good for that and
will carry more valuable information. Link hysteresis allows to consider
any control packet as a << I am alive >> packet. 


 > > No, LOST_LINK status is mentioned since version 02 of the OLSR draft
 > > and was included in HIPERLAN type 1 standard, so it is an old idea.
 > 
 > You are right that OLSR *mentioned* the LOST_LINK status before,
 > but it did not actually use it in HELLOs.
 > 

It was used in the implementation released for draft 03 (even if this
implementation is very basic and do not take advantage of all OLSR
features), it is just a matter of maturation of the draft.



I think our misunderstanding comes from different views of neighbor
sensing. There are many features in neighbor sensing :
- 1 - detecting new neighbors
- 2 - checking bi-directionality of links
- 3 - detecting link breakage
- 4 - advertising list of neighbors

 From your point of view 1,2,3 is done through Hello messages and 4
through Topology updates.

 From the OLSR point of view 1,2,4 is done through Hello messages,
and 3 is done through link hysteresis which uses all control messages
and possibly link layer notifications.

Wether 4 is part of the neighbor sensing or not  can be debated, but
it is not very interesting. In OSPF, it is included in both Hello
messages and Topology updates. When optimizing bandwidth utilization
it is logical to advertise the list only once. The reason for putting
4 in the neighbor sensing in OLSR is that neighbor sensing can be seen as a
lower layer that provides also an optimized flooding mechanism.


Your point is doing 1 and 3 at a higher rate than 4. Partial HELLOs
and link hysteresis allow to do that more efficiently than
differential HELLOs because they are more flexible. You can advertise
a new neighbor at any time with partial HELLOs, so doing 1 at a higher
rate is no problem. As mentioned Thomas, if you send an additional
HELLO message then you would probably glue a part of your neighbor
list with it to send more information in the packet and save some
bandwidth with regards to packet overhead.

Doing 3 at a higher rate is implementation dependent and OLSR link
hysteresis mechanism is very flexible about that: you can use link
layer notification of link breakage, or link layer notification of
power level or loss of control messages. For example, if you split
your list of neighbors in 10 HELLO messages, you will be able to
discover link breakage 10 times quicker than with only 1 HELLO message
(at the cost of more overhead).

It is logical to send more control data when mobility increases.
Partial HELLOs allow to react smoothly.


laurent



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> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Joe Macker wrote:
> 
> > At 12:04 PM 1/30/2002 -0800, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:
> 
> <SNIP>
>  
> > >different people.  I will make some effort to determine the reason for the different results, 
> > >but I am also re-running the experiments using the ns-2 code available from the INRIA site.  
> > >Is the Aalborg code exactly the same as the ns-2 code available from the INRIA site?  
> > 
> > I don't know that. Perhaps one of the developer's and releasing agents
> > could chime in.
> > 
> 
> The ns2-code, currently available from the INRIA www-site, is equivalent
> with what Joe refers to as the Aalborg code.

I think I found a bug in that code regarding packet size.  (I don't know whether the 
same bug is in Joe's code or in the code used for simulations that others have done.)
When running simulations with that code, I noticed in the trace file that every
OLSR packet has length 20 bytes, including the 20-byte IP header (i.e., ns-2 
considers each OLSR message to have zero length not including the IP header).

So I looked in the file ns-olsragent.cc and noticed the line

    ch->size() = IP_HDR_LEN;

in the sendPacket() function, which explained the bug. I changed the line to

    ch->size() = IP_HDR_LEN + p->datalen();

which seemed to fix the bug.  Am I missing something?

Richard




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>
>in the sendPacket() function, which explained the bug. I changed the line to
>
>    ch->size() = IP_HDR_LEN + p->datalen();
>
>which seemed to fix the bug.  Am I missing something?

Richard:
Good catch, I also believe this a bug.  I checked prototype olsrv4 ns2 code we developed here and it does not have this bug (it was independently developed from the INRIA code).

I will add your fix and doublecheck my previous snapshot scenarios with both pieces of code.  The initial points are still looking similar from running our code, although this is a third piece of code (its going to take awhile to get the full curves again)..




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> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Joe Macker wrote:
> 
> > At 12:04 PM 1/30/2002 -0800, ogier@erg.sri.com wrote:
> 
> <SNIP>
>  
> > >different people.  I will make some effort to determine the reason for the different results, 
> > >but I am also re-running the experiments using the ns-2 code available from the INRIA site.  
> > >Is the Aalborg code exactly the same as the ns-2 code available from the INRIA site?  
> > 
> > I don't know that. Perhaps one of the developer's and releasing agents
> > could chime in.
> > 
> 
> The ns2-code, currently available from the INRIA www-site, is equivalent
> with what Joe refers to as the Aalborg code.

I think I found a bug in that code regarding packet size.  (I don't know whether the 
same bug is in Joe's code or in the code used for simulations that others have done.)
When running simulations with that code, I noticed in the trace file that every
OLSR packet has length 20 bytes, including the 20-byte IP header (i.e., ns-2 
considers each OLSR message to have zero length not including the IP header).

So I looked in the file ns-olsragent.cc and noticed the line

    ch->size() = IP_HDR_LEN;

in the sendPacket() function, which explained the bug. I changed the line to

    ch->size() = IP_HDR_LEN + p->datalen();

which seemed to fix the bug.  Am I missing something?

Richard



