A Review on FAP in Mobile Adhoc Networks

Abstract

Mobile adhoc networks do not have fixed infrastructure. Nodes keep on joining and leaving the network dynamically. Assigning addresses for mobile nodes is a challenging task. The difficulty is even raised due to channel fading, partitions in network and dynamic joining and leaving of the nodes. Address collisions are quite a common problem in mobile adhoc networks. Autonomous addressing protocols are used here which indeed need a distributed self-organized mechanism. The model under discussion uses filters to maintain a distributed database of addresses to configure mobile nodes in adhoc networks. It also aims at reducing control load and is resistant to packet losses and network partitions.