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D2HCP PROTOCOL IN AD HOC NETWORKS: MERGING OF SUB-NETWORKS AND ADDRESS CONFLICT RESOLUTION

  • US 20160127193A1
  • Filed: 11/08/2013
  • Published: 05/05/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for detecting a merging situation of two ad-hoc sub-networks implementing a D2HCP addressing protocol, the first sub-network comprising a plurality of nodes and the second sub-network comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of each sub-network comprising a data set comprisingan identifier of said node;

  • identifiers of the known nodes of an authentication data set of said node;

    an IP address associated with the identifier of each node referenced in the authentication data set;

    at least one identifier of the sub-network to which said node belongs,the method comprising;

    discovering a second node of the second sub-network by a first node of the first sub-network, by receiving by the first node a so called discovery data frame, transmitted by the second node for determining a situation requiring merging of both sub-networks;

    exchanging setup data between the first node and the second node, comprising;

    the identifiers of each node;

    a size of each sub-network;

    the identifier of each sub-network (ID20, ID21);

    comparing the sizes of each sub-network enabling a master node and a slave node to be defined from the first and the second nodes, the slave node retrieving a set of identifiers of the nodes of the sub-network of the master node as well as the IP addresses associated with each of said identifiers, the determination of the slave node and the master node enabling the merging of both sub-networks in a single network to be setup.

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