The Optimized Link State Protocol version 2 (OLSRv2)

A Simple, Modular and Standardized Ad Hoc Routing Protocol

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The year is 2003, and the IETF has published OLSR as RFC3626....and you'd think that'd be the end of it.

Alas, in 2005, the IETF decided that time had come to advance OLSR from Experimental RFC onto Standards Track, and so, th Hipercom team once again swung into action and OLSRv2 saw the light of day. Based on the same algorithms and ideas as OLSR contained in RFC3626, OLSRv2 builds on the experience gained by a wide community from tests and deployments over the years since RFC3626, and features a more modular and extensible architecture, while being simpler and more efficient than its predecessor.

Hipercom@LIX is at the heart of OLSRv2, and more specific information on OLSRv2 research and development in Hipercom@LIX can be found here:

OLSRv2 Standardization

OLSRv2 Interops

Securing OLSRv2

OLSRv2 Protocol Suite Interop Tools

Simulation of Java Routing Protocols with Ns2

As with OLSR (RFC3626), the OLSRv2 efforts are lead 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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