US Army CERDEC US Army CERDEC This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes objects for configuring aspects of the Essential Connected Dominating Set (E-CDS) process for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs). The ECDS-MIB also reports state information, performance metrics, and notifications. In addition to configuration, the additional state and performance information is useful to operators troubleshooting multicast forwarding problems.