[manet] Managing large MANET

With the recent recharter of the MANET WG, I would like to introduce
some work I had done decades ago that might be informative and of
interest to participants of the WG.

Despite the large ip address space provided by IPv6, collisions are
probabilistically likely.

Large MANET are not likely to be isolated and very likely to be
connected to the larger internet and web through multiple points, as
the giant component given the number of devices in the world is the
internet, per Szemeredi's lemmas.

Management and auto-configuration in MANET is thus essential and their
interoperability with the existing/future planned internet
architecture is imperative.

Due to mobility of MANET nodes and environmental factors, network
partitions and mergers are  likely.

Mulithop wireless MANET nodes suffer from significant information rate loss. "By
distributing uniformly at random an order of n nodes wishing to
establish pairwise independent communications inside a domain of size of
the order of n, the per-node information rate must follow an inverse
square-root of n law, as n tends to infinity." - by Massimo
Franceschetti https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/papers/massimo.pdf.

This poses significant challenges in internet architecture which
includes MANETs as a primary citizen of the internet.

Please find more details on the problem in the full text of my masters
thesis on autoconfiguration in large multi hop mobile ad hoc networks
available for download
https://etd.auburn.edu/bitstream/handle/10415/1371/SINHA_PRIYANKA_58.pdf

-priyanka

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