Haas2002b

The Bordercast Routing Protocol (BRP) for Ad Hoc Networks

Zygmunt J. Haas
School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
323 Frank Rhodes Hall,
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607 255-3454
Fax: 607 255-9072
E-mail: haas@ece.cornell.edu
Homepage: http://people.ece.cornell.edu/haas/

Marc R. Pearlman
School of Electrial Engineering, Cornell University
319 Frank Rhodes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
United States of America
E-mail: pearlman@ee.cornell.edu

Prince Samar
School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
372 Frank Rhodes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
United States of America
Phone: 607 255-9068
Fax: 607 255-9072
E-mail: samar@ee.cornell.edu

Internet-Draft
July 2002
Expired: January 200
IETF MANET Working Group

Paper:


see [Haas2001c] for original version.

Comment:

Part of the Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) [Haas1997]

Abstract

The Bordercast Resolution Protocol (BRP) provides the bordercasting packet delivery service used to support network querying applications. The BRP uses a map of an extended routing zone, provided by the local proactive Intrazone Routing Protocol (IARP), to construct bordercast (multicast) trees, along which query packets are directed. Within the context of the hybrid ZRP, the BRP is used to guide the route requests of the global reactive Interzone Routing Protocol (IERP). The BRP employs special query control mechanisms to steer route requests away from areas of the network that have already been covered by the query. The combination of multicasting and zone based query control makes bordercasting an efficient and tunable service that is more suitable than flood searching for network probing applications like route discovery.

BibTeX

@TECHREPORT(Haas2001c,
   TITLE = {The Bordercast Routing Protocol (BRP) for Ad Hoc Networks},
   AUTHOR = {Zygmunt J. Haas and Marc R. Pearlman and Prince Samar},
   INSTITUTION = {IETF MANET Working Group},
   TYPE = {INTERNET-DRAFT},
   HOWPUBLISHED = {Published Online},
   MONTH = {July},
   YEAR = {2002},
   NOTE = {Expiration: January 2003},
   URL = {http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/02nov/I-D/draft-ietf-manet-zone-brp-02.txt},
   FILE = {draft-ietf-manet-zone-brp-02.txt}
)