[manet] Re: Managing large MANET

Hi Priyanka,

On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM Priyanka Sinha
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

Actually, while we have been discussing a recharter and new charter
text for some time, the WG has not actually been rechartered yet.
However, the current charter is considered to have some room in it for
the consideration of MANET management.

> 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

Thanks for sending this to the MANET list.

Donald
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> -priyanka

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