Inventors:
Richard G. Ogier - Half Moon Bay CA, US
Carla Peccolo Woodworth - San Mateo CA, US
Fred Lambert Templin - Portola Valley CA, US
Bhargav R. Bellur - Fremont CA, US
James A. Arnold - Helena MT, US
D. Scott Seaton - Fremont CA, US
Michael W. Frandsen - Helena MT, US
Nathan W. Williams - Helena MT, US
Christian A Gellrich - Redwood City CA, US
Assignee:
SRI International - Menlo Park CA
International Classification:
H04Q 724
US Classification:
370338, 370349, 370466, 709239, 709242
Abstract:
Described is an internetworking system having various mobile ad hoc extensions to the Internet that are particularly suited to the dynamic environment of mobile ad hoc networks. The internetworking system includes any combination of a link-state routing protocol for disseminating topology and link-state information over a multi-hop network comprised of nodes, a neighbor discovery protocol that can detect the appearance and disappearance of new neighbor nodes, an address format that facilitates deployment of IPv6 nodes in a predominantly IPv4 network infrastructure, a queuing mechanism that can update information upon resuming interrupted communications between nodes, and dynamic network measurement techniques for adaptively using wireless bandwidth when establishing and maintaining connections between nodes and a server.