Subject: [manet] New version of AODV

From: "Charles E. Perkins" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 22:02:38 -0700

Hello folks,

AODV has been recently issued as an experimental draft,
but there have been a lot of experiements going on
with AODV for years now.  We have learned many things
about AODV, and have been able to incorporate some of
them into an improved version.  The main changes are
as follows:

- Many mandates have been relaxed
- Route discovery now follows a path accumulation
  paradigm
- Precursor lists are no longer specified
- We expect to utilize the broadcast backbone as
  soon as a specification is completed that we can
  expect to use for the purpose.

Here is a URL for the document, useful until the
Internet Draft repositories can be updated:
	http://people.nokia.net/charliep/txt/aodvid/aodvid.txt

We have tried to reduce the mandated behavior so that
AODV can be implemented by very simple nodes.  This has
to be done, however, in such a way that as a greater
percentage of an ad hoc network population implements
more _recommended_ (not mandated) features, the
performance improves proportionately.  We wish to
avoid a situation in which a single node can destroy
the beneficial effects of implementations on most
other nodes that include the recommended features.

So, for instance, as more and more are enabled to issue
RERR commands, the more likely it is that applications
will enjoy better continuity of service by way of
route repairs.

It is our hope that this step will better enable
convergence with other on-demand protocols so that
we can more quickly produce a Proposed Standard.
Further specification is needed before we can hope
to converge with the table-driven protocols.

Regards,
Charlie P.

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