RFC 5820 · EXPERIMENTAL · 2010

Extensions to OSPF to Support Mobile Ad Hoc Networking

Overview

RFC 5820, “Extensions to OSPF to Support Mobile Ad Hoc Networking”, is an Experimental document published in March 2010 by A. Roy, M. Chandra. It has since been updated by RFC 7137. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes extensions to OSPF to support mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The extensions, called OSPF-OR (OSPF-Overlapping Relay), include mechanisms for link-local signaling (LLS), an OSPF-MANET interface, a simple technique to reduce the size of Hello packets by only transmitting incremental state changes, and a method for optimized flooding of routing updates. OSPF-OR also provides a means to reduce unnecessary adjacencies to support larger MANETs. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Experimental” means

Describes a specification that is part of a research or development effort, published so the community can gain experience with it.

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