Impementing and extending the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol

by Andreas Tønnesen

Abstract
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
- Implementation work
- Chapter overview
Mobile ad-hoc networks
- Ad-hoc networks
- MANET routing protocols
OLSR - core functionality
- Node addressing
- Information repositories
  - Timeouts
- Control traffic
  - Packet format
  - Message types
- Multipoint Relaying
- Using multiple interfaces
- Neighbor discovery
- Link state declaration
- Route Calculation
- Overview
Auxiliary functionality
- External access - HNA
- Link-layer notifications
- Link hysteresis
- TC redundancy
- MPR redundancy
Implementation background
- Technical
- History
  - olsr.org
- Implementation overview
- About the source-code
- Portability
- Tools used
- Real life usage
  - The Wizards of Os experiment
  - Other usage
- Related work
  - Other protocols
Implementing core functionality
- General implementation issues
- Control traffic
- IPv6
- The socket parser
- The packet parser
- Information repositories
- The scheduler
  - Data integrity - mutexes
- Maintaining state
- Declaring state
- Forwarding traffic
- Future work
Implementing auxiliary functionality
- HNA
- Link hysteresis
- MPR redundancy
- TC redundancy
- Link layer notification
- Future work
Olsrd plug-ins
- Plugins
  - Olsrd plugins
- The plugin interface
- Two example plugins
  - The power-status plugin
  - The dynamic Internet gateway plugin
- Future work
A GUI front-end
- A Graphical User Interface
- Future work
Usage analysis
- Local resource usage
- Network resource usage
  - Control traffic overhead
- Real life testing
Securing OLSR
- Computer network security
- A real life example
  - The scenario
  - Implementation of the attack
- Secure OLSR
- Implementation
- Future work
Self-configuring networks
- Background
- Duplicate address detection
- Pro-Active Auto-config
  - Basic operation
    - Proxy vs. broadcast solution
    - An example of a configuration session
- Implementation
- Future work
Gateway tunneling
- Routing Internet traffic
- HNA problems
  - HNA and heterogeneous nodes
  - Network Address Translation
- Gateway tunneling
- Implementation
  - Basic operation
    - Gateway mode
    - Client mode
  - Tests
- Future work
Conclusions
- Combining the extensions
- Suggestions for RFC3626 updates
- Future work
- Final conclusions from the author
Bibliography
olsrd configuration file
olsrd manual page
olsr_protocol.h
The UniK - OLSR plugin library
Secure extension to the OLSR protocol
IP Address Autoconfiguration For Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Internet Connectivity for Multi-Homed Proactive Ad Hoc Networks
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Andreas 2004-07-29