Survey on Autoconfiguration Schemes in IPV6 Based Manets

Abstract

The MANETs are spontaneously formed infrastructure-less networks with self-configuring nodes. The network is characterized with a dynamic nature as the member nodes are highly mobile resulting in network merging and partitioning. Each node in MANETs acts as routers to assist in communication. To start with self-configurations, the autoconfiguration schemes are used in these networks to assign unique addresses to the nodes and allow them to communicate with other nodes. Due to the dynamic nature of MANETs and the intervention of new technologies in next generation networks, the existing autoconfiguration schemes face many issues. The research focuses to resolve the pertaining issues in autoconfiguration schemes are discussed in this book chapter.