One of the assumptions, often brought forward when discussing MANETs is, that they're self-organizing and that a pre-determined infrastructure can not be assumed present to ensure correct operation.

For this to hold true, routers in a MANET must be able to self-configure with their necessary interface parameters -- notably, they must be able to acquire suitable and unique prefixes for assigning addresses to hosts, associated to a MANET router. In the dynamic environment of a MANET, this presents a quite unique challenge.

The IETF AUTOCONF working group, chartered in the fall of 2005 with the task of developing MANET autoconfiguration protocols for IPv6. The working group is co-chaired by Thomas Clausen (Hipercom @LIX).

T. Clausen and U. Herberg at IEEE-NSS 2010 in Melbourne, Australia, September 1-3
They will present the paper "Router and Link Admittance Control in the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2 (OLSRv2))". Part of the OLSRv2 Security series of publications documenting efforts on providing secure, OLSRv2-based networks, this paper studies the use and performance of "fine-grained signatures".

Here's some more OLSRv2-security-related information on the Hipercom@LIX website:
Securing OLSRv2
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T. Clausen and U. Herberg at IEEE-iTAP 2010 in Wuhan, China, August 21-23
They will present the paper "Digital Signatures for Admittance Control in the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2". Part of the OLSRv2 Security series of publications documenting efforts on providing secure, OLSRv2-based networks, this paper emphasizes the use and performance of ECC for admittance control in OLSRv2-based networks.

Here's some more OLSRv2-security-related information on the Hipercom@LIX website:
Securing OLSRv2
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IETF in Maastricht
Before and during the IETF in Maastricht, July 25-30 2010 a new slew of I-Ds happened, from the quills of Hipercom@LIX:

NHDP was updated after AD review, and IESG evaluation started - hopefully, this is the second-to-last document in the core OLSRv2 protocol suite.

The OLSRv2 mib document also was updated as was the NHDP mib document and the the PacketBB-SEC document -- the latter of which now is a working group document (yay!).

A new I-D, YAAP was published, detailing one current ad hoc address autoconfiguration protocol.

In the Wireless Sensor Networking area, two new documents were published: a p2p (sensor-to-sensor) extension to RPL and a performance study hereof.
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