Mobile Ad hoc Networks Working Group                          C. Perkins
Internet-Draft                                                 Futurewei
Intended status: Standards Track                              S. Ratliff
Expires: April 30, 2015                                            Cisco
                                                              J. Dowdell
                                                Airbus Defence and Space
                                                        October 27, 2014


                Dynamic MANET On-demand (AODVv2) Routing
                       draft-ietf-manet-aodvv2-05

Abstract

   The revised Ad Hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODVv2) routing
   protocol is intended for use by mobile routers in wireless, multihop
   networks.  AODVv2 determines unicast routes among AODVv2 routers
   within the network in an on-demand fashion, offering rapid
   convergence in dynamic topologies.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   3.  Notational Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   4.  Applicability Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   5.  Data Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     5.1.  Route Table Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     5.2.  Bidirectional Connectivity and Blacklists . . . . . . . .  12
     5.3.  Router Clients and Client Networks  . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     5.4.  AODVv2 Message Header Fields and Information Elements . .  13
     5.5.  Sequence Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     5.6.  Enabling Alternate Metrics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     5.7.  RREQ Table: Received RREQ Messages  . . . . . . . . . . .  16
   6.  AODVv2 Operations on Route Table Entries  . . . . . . . . . .  17
     6.1.  Evaluating Incoming Routing Information . . . . . . . . .  18
     6.2.  Applying Route Updates To Route Table Entries . . . . . .  19
     6.3.  Route Table Entry Timeouts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
   7.  Routing Messages RREQ and RREP (RteMsgs)  . . . . . . . . . .  20
     7.1.  Route Discovery Retries and Buffering . . . . . . . . . .  21
     7.2.  RteMsg Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     7.3.  RREQ Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     7.4.  RREP Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
     7.5.  Handling a Received RteMsg  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
       7.5.1.  Additional Handling for Incoming RREQ . . . . . . . .  26
       7.5.2.  Additional Handling for Incoming RREP . . . . . . . .  27
     7.6.  Suppressing Redundant RREQ messages . . . . . . . . . . .  27
   8.  Route Maintenance and RERR Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
     8.1.  Maintaining Route Lifetimes During Packet Forwarding  . .  28
     8.2.  Active Next-hop Router Adjacency Monitoring . . . . . . .  29
     8.3.  RERR Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
       8.3.1.  Case 1: Undeliverable Packet  . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
       8.3.2.  Case 2: Broken Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
     8.4.  Receiving and Handling RERR Messages  . . . . . . . . . .  31
   9.  Unknown Message and TLV Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
   10. Simple Internet Attachment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
   11. Multiple Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
   12. AODVv2 Control Message Generation Limits  . . . . . . . . . .  34
   13. Optional Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
     13.1.  Expanding Rings Multicast  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
     13.2.  Intermediate RREP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
     13.3.  Precursor Lists and Notifications  . . . . . . . . . . .  35
       13.3.1.  Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
       13.3.2.  Precursor Notification Details . . . . . . . . . . .  35



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     13.4.  Multicast RREP Response to RREQ  . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
     13.5.  RREP_ACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
     13.6.  Message Aggregation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
   14. Administratively Configurable Parameters and Timer Values . .  37
     14.1.  Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
     14.2.  Protocol constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
     14.3.  Administrative (functional) controls . . . . . . . . . .  38
     14.4.  Other administrative parameters and lists  . . . . . . .  39
   15. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
     15.1.  AODVv2 Message Types Specification . . . . . . . . . . .  39
     15.2.  Message TLV Type Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
     15.3.  Address Block TLV Specification  . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
     15.4.  Metric Type Number Allocation  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
   16. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  41
   17. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
   18. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
     18.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
     18.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  44
   Appendix A.  Example Algorithms for AODVv2 Protocol Operations  .  45
     A.1.  Subroutines for AODVv2 Protocol Operations  . . . . . . .  47
     A.2.  Example Algorithms for AODVv2 RREQ Operations . . . . . .  47
       A.2.1.  Generate_RREQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  47
       A.2.2.  Receive_RREQ  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
       A.2.3.  Regenerate_RREQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  49
     A.3.  Example Algorithms for AODVv2 RREP Operations . . . . . .  50
       A.3.1.  Generate_RREP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  51
       A.3.2.  Receive_RREP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  52
       A.3.3.  Regenerate_RREP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  53
       A.3.4.  Consume_RREP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  54
     A.4.  Example Algorithms for AODVv2 RERR Operations . . . . . .  54
       A.4.1.  Generate_RERR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  54
       A.4.2.  Receive_RERR  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  55
       A.4.3.  Regenerate_RERR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  56
     A.5.  Example Algorithms for AODVv2 RREP-Ack Operations . . . .  58
       A.5.1.  Generate_RREP_Ack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  58
       A.5.2.  Consume_RREP_Ack  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  58
       A.5.3.  Timeout_RREP_Ack  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  58
   Appendix B.  Example RFC 5444-compliant packet formats  . . . . .  58
     B.1.  RREQ Message Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  59
     B.2.  RREP Message Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  61
     B.3.  RERR Message Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  63
     B.4.  RREP_ACK Message Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  64
   Appendix C.  Changes since revision ...-04.txt  . . . . . . . . .  64
   Appendix D.  Changes since revision ...-03.txt  . . . . . . . . .  65
   Appendix E.  Changes since revision ...-02.txt  . . . . . . . . .  65
   Appendix F.  Multi-homing Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . .  66
   Appendix G.  Shifting Network Prefix Advertisement Between AODVv2
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1.  Overview

   The revised Ad Hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODVv2) routing
   protocol [formerly named DYMO] enables on-demand, multihop unicast
   routing among AODVv2 routers in mobile ad hod networks
   [MANETs][RFC2501].  The basic operations of the AODVv2 protocol are
   route discovery and route maintenance.  Route discovery is performed
   when an AODVv2 router must transmit a packet towards a destination
   for which it does not have a route.  Route maintenance is performed
   to avoid prematurely expunging routes from the route table, and to
   avoid dropping packets when an active route breaks.

   During route discovery, the originating AODVv2 router (RREQ_Gen)
   multicasts a Route Request message (RREQ) to find a route toward some
   target destination.  Using a hop-by-hop regeneration algorithm, each
   AODVv2 router receiving the RREQ message records a route toward the
   originator.  When the target's AODVv2 router (RREP_Gen) receives the
   RREQ, it records a route toward RREQ_Gen and generates a Route Reply
   (RREP) unicast toward RREQ_Gen.  Each AODVv2 router that receives the
   RREP stores a route toward the target, and again unicasts the RREP
   toward the originator.  When RREQ_Gen receives the RREP, routes have
   then been established between RREQ_Gen (the originating AODVv2
   router) and RREP_Gen (the target's AODVv2 router) in both directions.

   Route maintenance consists of two operations.  In order to maintain
   active routes, AODVv2 routers extend route lifetimes upon
   successfully forwarding a packet.  When a data packet is received to
   be forwarded but there is no valid route for the destination, then
   the AODVv2 router of the source of the packet is notified via a Route
   Error (RERR) message.  Each upstream router that receives the RERR
   marks the route as broken.  Before such an upstream AODVv2 router
   could forward a packet to the same destination, it would have to
   perform route discovery again for that destination.  RERR messages
   are also used to notify upstream routers when routes break (say, due
   to loss of a link to a neighbor).

   AODVv2 uses sequence numbers to assure loop freedom [Perkins99],
   similarly to AODV.  Sequence numbers enable AODVv2 routers to
   determine the temporal order of AODVv2 route discovery messages,
   thereby avoiding use of stale routing information.  Unlike AODV,
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2.  Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
   [RFC2119].

   This document uses terminology from [RFC5444].

   This document defines the following terms:

   Adjacency
      A bi-directional relationship between neighboring AODVv2 routers
      for the purpose of exchanging routing information.  Not every pair
      of neighboring routers will necessarily form an adjacency.
      Monitoring of adjacencies where packets are being forwarded is
      required (see Section 8.2).
   AODVv2 Router
      An IP addressable device in the ad-hoc network that performs the
      AODVv2 protocol operations specified in this document.
   AODVv2 Sequence Number (SeqNum)
      Same as Sequence Number.
   Client Interface
      An interface that directly connects Router Clients to the Router.
   Current_Time
      The current time as maintained by the AODVv2 router.
   Disregard
      Ignore for further processing (see Section 5.4).
   Handling Router (HandlingRtr)
      HandlingRtr denotes the AODVv2 router receiving and handling an
      AODVv2 message.
   Incoming Link
      A link over which an AODVv2 Router has received a message from an
      adjacent router.
   MANET
      A Mobile Ad Hoc Network as defined in [RFC2501].
   Node
      An IP addressable device in the ad-hoc network.  A node may be an
      AODVv2 router, or it may be a device in the network that does not
      perform any AODVv2 protocol operations.  All nodes in this
      document are either AODVv2 Routers or else Router Clients.
   Originating Node (OrigNode)
      The Originating Node is the node that launched the application
      requiring communication with the Target Node.  If OrigNode is a
      Router Client, its AODVv2 router (RREQ_Gen) has the responsibility
      to generate a AODVv2 RREQ message on behalf of OrigNode as
      necessary to discover a route.
   Reactive



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      A protocol operation is said to be "reactive" if it is performed
      only in reaction to specific events.  As used in this document,
      "reactive" is synonymous with "on-demand".
   Routable Unicast IP Address
      A routable unicast IP address is a unicast IP address that is
      scoped sufficiently to be forwarded by a router.  Globally-scoped
      unicast IP addresses and Unique Local Addresses (ULAs) [RFC4193]
      are examples of routable unicast IP addresses.
   Route Error (RERR)
      A RERR message is used to indicate that an AODVv2 router does not
      have a route toward one or more particular destinations.
   Route Reply (RREP)
      A RREP message is used to establish a route between the Target
      Node and the Originating Node, at all the AODVv2 routers between
      them.
   Route Request (RREQ)
      An AODVv2 router uses a RREQ message to discover a valid route to
      a particular destination address, called the Target Node.  An
      AODVv2 router processing a RREQ receives routing information for
      the Originating Node.
   Router Client
      A node that requires the services of an AODVv2 router for route
      discovery and maintenance.  An AODVv2 router is always its own
      client, so that its list of client IP addresses is never empty.
   Router Interface
      An interface supporting the transmission or reception of Router
      Messages.
   RREP Generating Router (RREP_Gen)
      The RREP Generating Router is the AODVv2 router that serves
      TargNode.  RREP_Gen generates the RREP message to advertise a
      route towards TargNode from OrigNode.
   RREQ Generating Router (RREQ_Gen)
      The RREQ Generating Router is the AODVv2 router that serves
      OrigNode.  RREQ_Gen generates the RREQ message to discover a route
      for TargNode.
   Sequence Number (SeqNum)
      Each AODVv2 router MUST maintain an unsigned integer known as the
      router's "Sequence Number".  The Sequence Number guarantees the
      temporal order of routing information to maintain loop-free
      routes, and fulfills the same role as the "Destination Sequence
      Number" of DSDV [Perkins94], and as the AODV Sequence Number in
      RFC 3561[RFC3561].  The value zero (0) is reserved to indicate
      that the Sequence Number for an address is unknown.
   Target Node (TargNode)
      The Target Node denotes the node towards which a route is needed.
   Type-Length-Value structure (TLV)
      A generic way to represent information as specified in [RFC5444].
   Unreachable Node (UnreachableNode)



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      An UnreachableNode is a node for which a valid route is not known.
   upstream
      In the direction from TargNode to OrigNode.
   Valid route
      A route that can be used for forwarding; in other words a route
      that is not Broken or Expired.




















3.  Notational Conventions

   This document uses the conventions found in Table 1 to describe
   information in the fields from [RFC5444].





















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   +------------------------+------------------------------------------+
   |        Notation        |   Information Location and/or Meaning    |
   +------------------------+------------------------------------------+
   |     Route[Address]     |   A route table entry towards Address    |
   | Route[Address].{field} |      A field in a route table entry      |
   |           --           |                    --                    |
   |    <msg-hop-count>     | RFC 5444 Message Header <msg-hop-count>  |
   |    <msg-hop-limit>     | RFC 5444 Message Header <msg-hop-limit>  |
   |        AddrBlk         |      an RFC 5444 Address TLV Block       |
   |       AddrBlk[1]       |    The first address slot in AddrBlk     |
   |       AddrBlk[N]       |     The Nth address slot in AddrBlk      |
   |        OrigNdx         | The index of OrigNode within the AddrBlk |
   |        TargNdx         | The index of TargNode within the AddrBlk |
   |        AddrTLV         |      an RFC 5444 Address Block TLV       |
   |       AddrTLV[1]       |        the first item in AddrTLV         |
   |       AddrTLV[N]       |         the Nth item in AddrTLV          |
   |       Metric_TLV       |        Metric AddrTLV for AddrBlk        |
   |       SeqNum_TLV       |   Sequence Number AddrTLV for AddrBlk    |
   |     OrigSeqNum_TLV     | Originating Node Sequence Number AddrTLV |
   |     TargSeqNum_TLV     |   Target Node Sequence Number AddrTLV    |
   |           --           |                    --                    |
   |        OrigNode        |             Originating Node             |
   |        RREQ_Gen        |    AODVv2 router originating an RREQ     |
   |        RREP_Gen        |   AODVv2 router responding to an RREQ    |
   |         RteMsg         |           Either RREQ or RREP            |
   |     RteMsg.{field}     |          Field in RREQ or RREP           |
   |         AdvRte         | a route advertised in an incoming RteMsg |
   |      HandlingRtr       |             Handling Router              |
   |        TargNode        |               Target Node                |
   |    UnreachableNode     |             Unreachable Node             |
   +------------------------+------------------------------------------+

                                  Table 1

4.  Applicability Statement

   The AODVv2 routing protocol is a reactive routing protocol designed
   for stub (i.e., non-transit) or disconnected (i.e., from the
   Internet) mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs).  AODVv2 handles a wide
   variety of mobility patterns by determining routes on-demand.  AODVv2
   also handles a wide variety of traffic patterns.  In networks with a
   large number of routers, AODVv2 is best suited for relatively sparse
   traffic scenarios where any particular router forwards packets to
   only a small percentage of the AODVv2 routers in the network, due to
   the on-demand nature of route discovery and route maintenance.
   AODVv2 supports routers with multiple interfaces, as long as each
   interface has its own (unicast routeable) IP address; the set of all




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   network interfaces supporting AODVv2 is administratively configured
   in a list (namely, AODVv2_INTERFACES).

   Although AODVv2 is closely related to AODV [RFC3561], and shares some
   features of DSR [RFC4728], AODVv2 is not interoperable with either of
   those other two protocols.

   AODVv2 is applicable to memory constrained devices, since only a
   little routing state is maintained in each AODVv2 router.  Routes
   that are not needed for forwarding data do not have to be maintained,
   in contrast to proactive routing protocols that require routing
   information to all routers within the MANET be maintained.

   In addition to routing for its own local applications, each AODVv2
   router can also route on behalf of other non-routing nodes (in this
   document, "Router Clients"), reachable via Client Interfaces.  Each
   AODVv2 router, if serving router clients other than itself, SHOULD be
   configured with information about the IP addresses of its clients,
   using any suitable method.  In the initial state, no AODVv2 router is
   required to have information about the relationship between any other
   AODVv2 router and its Router Clients (see Section 5.3).

   The coordination among multiple AODVv2 routers to distribute routing
   information correctly for a shared address (i.e. an address that is
   advertised and can be reached via multiple AODVv2 routers) is not
   described in this document.  The AODVv2 router operation of shifting
   responsibility for a routing client from one AODVv2 router to another
   is described in Appendix G.  Address assignment procedures are
   entirely out of scope for AODVv2.  A Router Client SHOULD NOT be
   served by more than one AODVv2 router at any one time.

   AODVv2 routers perform route discovery to find a route toward a
   particular destination.  AODVv2 routers MUST must be configured to
   respond to RREQs for themselves and their clients.  When AODVv2 is
   the only protocol interacting with the forwarding table, AODVv2 MAY
   be configured to perform route discovery for all unknown unicast
   destinations.

   AODVv2 only supports bidirectional links.  In the case of possible
   unidirectional links, blacklists (see Section 5.2) SHOULD be used, or
   other means (e.g. adjacency establishment with only neighboring
   routers that have bidirectional communication as indicated by NHDP
   [RFC6130]) of assuring and monitoring bi-directionality are
   recommended.  Otherwise, persistent packet loss or persistent
   protocol failures could occur.  The cost of bidirectional link L
   (denoted Cost(L)) may depend upon the direction across the link for
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   unidirectional, metric information from incoming AODVv2 messages MUST
   NOT be used for route table updates.

   The routing algorithm in AODVv2 may be operated at layers other than
   the network layer, using layer-appropriate addresses.  The routing
   algorithm makes use of some persistent state; if there is no
   persistent storage available for this state, recovery can impose a
   performance penalty (e.g., in case of AODVv2 router reboots).

5.  Data Structures

5.1.  Route Table Entry

   The route table entry is a conceptual data structure.
   Implementations MAY use any internal representation so long as it
   provides access to the information specified below.

   A route table entry has the following fields:

   Route.Address
      The address or address prefix of one or more TargNode(s)
   Route.PrefixLength
      The length of the address or prefix.  If the value of
      Route.PrefixLength is less than the length of addresses in the
      address family used by the AODVv2 routers, the associated address
      is an address prefix, rather than an address.  A PrefixLength is
      stored for every route in the route table.
   Route.SeqNum
      The Sequence Number associated with Route.Address, as obtained
      from the last packet that successfully updated this route table
      entry.
   Route.NextHopAddress
      The IP address of the adjacent AODVv2 router used for the path
      toward the Route.Address
   Route.NextHopInterface
      The interface used to send packets toward Route.Address
   Route.LastUsed
      The time that this route was last used
   Route.ExpirationTime
      The time at which this route must expire
   Route.MetricType
      The type of the metric for the route towards Route.Address
   Route.Metric
      The cost of the route towards Route.Address expressed in units
      consistent with Route.MetricType
   Route.State
      The last *known* state of the route.  Route.State is one of the
      following: Active, Idle, Expired, Broken or Timed.



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   Route.Precursors (optional)
      A list of upstream nodes using the route.

   A route table entry (i.e., a route) is in one of the following
   states:

   Active
      An Active route is in current use for forwarding packets.  The
      route's state determines the operations that can be performed on
      the route table entry.  During use, an Active route is maintained
      continuously by AODVv2 and is considered to remain active as long
      as it is used at least once during every ACTIVE_INTERVAL.  When a
      route is no longer Active, it becomes an Idle route.
   Idle
      An Idle route can be used for forwarding packets, even though it
      is not in current use.  If an Idle route is used to forward a
      packet, it becomes an Active route once again.  After an Idle
      route remains idle for MAX_IDLETIME, it becomes an Expired route.
   Expired
      After a route has been idle for too long, it expires, and may no
      longer be used for forwarding packets.  An Expired route is not
      used for forwarding, but the sequence number information can be
      maintained until the destination sequence number has had no
      updates for MAX_SEQNUM_LIFETIME; after that time, old sequence
      number information is considered no longer valuable and the
      Expired route MUST BE expunged.
   Broken
      A route marked as Broken cannot be used for forwarding packets but
      still has valid destination sequence number information.  When the
      link to a route's next hop is broken, the route is marked as being
      Broken, and afterwards the route MAY NOT be used.
   Timed
      The expiration of a Timed route is controlled by the
      Route.ExpirationTime time of the route table entry (instead of
      MAX_IDLETIME).  Until that time, a Timed route can be used for
      forwarding packets.  Afterwards, the route must be Expired (or
      expunged).

   MAX_SEQNUM_LIFETIME is the time after a reboot during which an AODVv2
   router MUST NOT transmit any routing messages.  Thus, if all other
   AODVv2 routers expunge routes to the rebooted router after that time
   interval, the rebooted AODVv2 router's sequence number will not be
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5.2.  Bidirectional Connectivity and Blacklists

   To avoid repeated failure of Route Discovery, an AODVv2 router
   (HandlingRtr) handling a RREP message MUST attempt to verify
   connectivity towards RREQ_Gen.  This MAY be done by including the
   Acknowledgement Request (AckReq) message TLV (see Section 15.2) in
   the RREP.  In reply to an AckReq, an RREP_ACK message message MUST be
   sent.  If the verification is not received within
   UNICAST_MESSAGE_SENT_TIMEOUT, HandlingRtr MUST put the upstream
   neighbor in the blacklist.  RREQs received from a blacklisted router,
   or any router over a link that is known to be incoming-only, MUST NOT
   be regenerated by HandlingRtr.  However, the upstream neighbor SHOULD
   NOT be permanently blacklisted; after a certain time
   (MAX_BLACKLIST_TIME), it SHOULD once again be considered as a viable
   upstream neighbor for route discovery operations.

   For this purpose, a list of blacklisted routers along with their time
   of removal SHOULD be maintained:

   Blacklist.Router
      The IP address of the router that did not verify bidirectional
      connectivity.
   Blacklist.RemoveTime
      The time at which Blacklist.Router MAY be removed from the
      blacklist.

5.3.  Router Clients and Client Networks

   An AODVv2 router may offer routing services to other nodes that are
   not AODVv2 routers; such nodes are defined as Router Clients in this
   document.

   For this purpose, CLIENT_ADDRESSES must be configured on each AODVv2
   router with the following information:

   Client IP address
      The IP address of the node that requires routing service from the
      AODVv2 router.
   Client Prefix Length
      The length of the routing prefix associated with the client IP
      address.

   If the Client Prefix Length is not the full length of the Client IP
   address, then the prefix defines a Client Network.  If an AODVv2
   router is configured to serve a Client Network, then the AODVv2
   router MUST serve every node that has an address within the range
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   Routing Clients for an AODVv2 router is never empty, since an AODVv2
   router is always its own client as well.

5.4.  AODVv2 Message Header Fields and Information Elements

   In its default mode of operation, AODVv2 sends messages using the
   parameters for port number and IP protocol specified in [RFC5498] to
   carry protocol packets.  By default, AODVv2 messages are sent with
   the IP destination address set to the link-local multicast address
   LL-MANET-Routers [RFC5498] unless otherwise specified.  Therefore,
   all AODVv2 routers MUST subscribe to LL-MANET-Routers [RFC5498] to
   receive AODVv2 messages.  In order to reduce multicast overhead,
   regenerated multicast packets in MANETs SHOULD be done according to
   methods specified in [RFC6621].  AODVv2 does not specify which method
   should be used to restrict the set of AODVv2 routers that have the
   responsibility to regenerate multicast packets.  Note that multicast
   packets MAY be sent via unicast.  For example, this may occur for
   certain link-types (non-broadcast media), for manually configured
   router adjacencies, or in order to improve robustness.

   The IPv4 TTL (IPv6 Hop Limit) field for all packets containing AODVv2
   messages is set to 255.  If a packet is received with a value other
   than 255, any AODVv2 message contained in the packet MUST be
   disregarded by AODVv2.  This mechanism, known as "The Generalized TTL
   Security Mechanism" (GTSM) [RFC5082] helps to assure that packets
   have not traversed any intermediate routers.

   IP packets containing AODVv2 protocol messages SHOULD be given
   priority queuing and channel access.

   AODVv2 messages are transmitted in messages that conform to the
   packet and message format specified in [RFC5444].  Here is a brief
   summary of the format.

      A packet formatted according to RFC 5444 contains zero or more
      messages.
      A message contains a message header, message TLV block, and zero
      or more address blocks.
      Each address block MAY also have an associated TLV block; this TLV
      block MAY encode multiple TLVs.  Each such TLV may include an
      array of values.  The list of TLV values may be associated with
      various subsets of the addresses in the address block.

   If a packet contains only a single AODVv2 message and no packet TLVs,
   it need only include a minimal Packet-Header [RFC5444].  The length
   of an address (32 bits for IPv4 and 128 bits for IPv6) inside an
   AODVv2 message is indicated by the msg-addr-length (MAL) in the msg-
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5.5.  Sequence Numbers

   Sequence Numbers allow AODVv2 routers to evaluate the freshness of
   routing information.  Each AODVv2 router in the network MUST maintain
   its own sequence number.  Each RREQ and RREP generated by an AODVv2
   router includes that sequence number.  Each AODVv2 router MUST make
   sure that its sequence number is unique and monotonically increasing.
   This can be achieved by incrementing it with every RREQ or RREP it
   generates.

   Every router receiving a RREQ or RREP can thus use the Sequence
   Number of a RREQ or RREP as information concerning the freshness of
   the packet's route update: if the new packet's Sequence Number is
   lower than the one already stored in the route table, its information
   is considered stale.

   As a consequence, loop freedom is assured.

   An AODVv2 router increments its SeqNum as follows.  Most of the time,
   SeqNum is incremented by simply adding one (1).  But when the SeqNum
   has the value of the largest possible number representable as a
   16-bit unsigned integer (i.e., 65,535), it MUST be incremented by
   setting to one (1).  In other words, the sequence number after 65,535
   is 1.

   An AODVv2 router SHOULD maintain its SeqNum in persistent storage.
   If an AODVv2 router's SeqNum is lost, it MUST take the following
   actions to avoid the danger of routing loops.  First, the AODVv2
   router MUST invalidate all route table entries, by setting
   Route.State = Broken for each entry.  Furthermore the AODVv2 router
   MUST wait for at least MAX_SEQNUM_LIFETIME before transmitting or
   regenerating any AODVv2 RREQ or RREP messages.  If an AODVv2 protocol
   message is received during this waiting period, the AODVv2 router
   SHOULD perform normal route table entry updates, but not forward the
   message to other nodes.  If a data packet is received for forwarding
   to another destination during this waiting period, the AODVv2 router
   MUST transmit a RERR message indicating that no route is available.
   At the end of the waiting period the AODVv2 router sets its SeqNum to
   one (1) and begins performing AODVv2 protocol operations again.

5.6.  Enabling Alternate Metrics

   AODVv2 route selection in MANETs depends upon associating metric
   information with each route table entry.  When presented with
   candidate route update information, deciding whether to use the
   update involves evaluating the metric.  Some applications may require
   metric information other than Hop Count, which has traditionally been
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   it is well known that reliance on Hop Count can cause selection of
   the worst possible route in many situations.

   It is beyond the scope of this document to describe how applications
   specify route selection at the time they launch processing.  One
   possibility would be to provide a route metric preference as part of
   the library routines for opening sockets.  In view of the above
   considerations, it is important to enable route selection based on
   metric information other than Hop Count -- in other words, based on
   "alternate metrics".  Each such alternate metric measures a "cost" of
   using the associated route, and there are many different kinds of
   cost (latency, delay, monetary, energy, etc.).  The range and data
   type of each such alternate metric may be different.  For instance,
   the data type might be integers, or floating point numbers, or
   restricted subsets thereof.

   The most significant change when enabling use of alternate metrics is
   to require the possibility of multiple routes to the same
   destination, where the "cost" of each of the multiple routes is
   measured by a different metric.  Moreover, the method by which route
   updates are tested for usefulness has to be slightly generalized to
   depend upon a more abstract method of evaluation which, in this
   document, is named "Cost(R)", where 'R' is the route for which the
   Cost is to be evaluated.  From the above, the route table information
   for 'R' must always include the type of metric by which Cost(R) is
   evaluated, so the metric type does not have to be shown as a distinct
   parameter for Cost(R).  Since determining loop freedom is known to
   depend on comparing the Cost(R) of route update information to the
   Cost(R) of an existing stored route using the same metric, AODVv2
   must also be able to invoke an abstract routine which in this
   document is called "LoopFree(R1, R2)".  LoopFree(R1, R2) returns TRUE
   when, (under the assumption of nondecreasing SeqNum during Route
   Discovery) given that R2 is loop-free and Cost(R2) is the cost of
   route R2, Cost(R1) is known to guarantee loop freedom of the route
   R1.  In this document, an AODVv2 router will only invoke LoopFree
   (AdvRte, Route), for routes AdvRte and Route which use the same
   metric to the same destination.  AdvRte is the route advertised in an
   incoming RREQ or RREP, and is used as parameter R1 for LoopFree.
   Route is a route already existing in the AODVv2 router's route table,
   and is used as parameter R2 for LoopFree.

   Generally, HopCount may still be considered the default metric for
   use in MANETs, notwithstanding the above objections.  Each metric has
   to have a Metric Type, and the Metric Type is allocated by IANA as
   specified in [RFC6551].  Each Route has to include the Metric Type as
   part of the route table entry for that route.  Hop Count has Metric
   Type assignment 3.  The Cost of a route using Metric Type 3 is simply
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   Type 3, LoopFree (AdvRte, Route) is TRUE when Cost(AdvRte) <=
   Cost(Route).  The specification of Cost(R) and LoopFree(AdvRte,
   Route) for metric types other than 3 is beyond the scope of this
   document.

   Whenever an AODV router receives metric information in an incoming
   message, the value of the metric is as measured by the transmitting
   router, and does not reflect the cost of traversing the incoming
   link.  In order to simplify the description of storing accrued route
   costs in the route table, the Cost() function is also defined to
   return the value of traversing a link 'L'.  In other words, the
   domain of the Cost() function is enlarged to include links as well as
   routes.  For Metric Type 3, (i.e., the HopCount metric) Cost(L) = 1
   for all links L.  The specification of Cost(L) for metric types other
   than 3 is beyond the scope of this document.  Whether the argument of
   the Cost() function is a link or a route will, in this document,
   always be clear.  As a natural result of the way routes are looked up
   according to conformant metric type, all intermediate routers
   handling a RteMsg will assign the same metric type to all metric
   information in the RteMsg.

   For some metrics, a maximum value is defined, namely MAX_METRIC[i]
   where 'i' is the Metric Type.  AODVv2 does not store routes that cost
   more than MAX_METRIC[i].  MAX_METRIC[3] is defined to be
   MAX_HOPCOUNT, where as before 3 is the Metric Type of the HopCount
   metric.  MAX_HOPCOUNT MUST be larger than the AODVv2 network
   diameter.  Otherwise, AODVv2 protocol messages may not reach their
   intended destinations.

5.7.  RREQ Table: Received RREQ Messages

   Two incoming RREQ messages are considered to be "comparable" if they
   were generated by the same AODVv2 router in order to discover a route
   for the same destination with the same metric type.  According to
   that notion of comparability, when RREQ messages are flooded in a
   MANET, an AODVv2 router may well receive comparable RREQ messages
   from more than one of its neighbors.  A router, after receiving an
   RREQ message, MUST check against previous RREQs to assure that its
   response message would contain information that is not redundant (see
   Section 7.6 regarding suppression of redundant RREQ messages).
   Otherwise, multicast RREQs are likely to be regenerated again and
   again with almost no additional benefit, but generating a great deal
   of unnecessary signaling traffic and interference.

   To avoid transmission of redundant RREQ messages, while still
   enabling the proper handling of earlier RREQ messages that may have
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   router to keep a list of the certain information about RREQ messages
   which it has recently received.

   This list is called the AODVv2 Received RREQ Table -- or, more
   briefly, the RREQ Table.  Two AODVv2 RREQ messages are comparable if:

   o  they have the same metric type
   o  they have the same OrigNode and TargNode addresses

   Each entry in the RREQ Table has the following fields:

   o  OrigNode address
   o  TargNode address
   o  OrigNode Sequence Number
   o  TargNode Sequence Number (if present in RREQ)
   o  Metric Type
   o  Metric
   o  Timestamp

   The RREQ Table is maintained so that no two entries in the RREQ
   Table are comparable -- that is, all RREQs represented in the RREQ
   Table either have different OrigNode addresses, different TargNode
   addresses, or different metric types.  If two RREQs have the same
   metric type and OrigNode and Targnode addresses, the information from
   the one with the older Sequence Number is not needed in the table; in
   case they have the same Sequence Number, the one with the greater
   Metric value is not needed; in case they have the same Metric as
   well, it does not matter which table entry is maintained.  Whenever a
   RREQ Table entry is updated, its Timestamp field should also be
   updated to reflect the Current_Time.

   When optional multicast RREP (see Section 13.4) is used to enable
   selection from among multiple possible return routes, an AODVv2
   router can eliminate redundant RREP messages using the analogous
   mechanism along with a RREP Table.  The description in this section
   only refers to RREQ multicast messages.

   Protocol handling of RERR messages eliminates the need for tracking
   RERR messages, since the rules for RERR regeneration prevent the
   phenomenon of redundant retansmission that affects RREQ and RREP
   multicast.

6.  AODVv2 Operations on Route Table Entries

   In this section, operations are specified for updating the route
   table due to timeouts and route updates within AODVv2 messages.
   Route update information in AODVv2 messages includes IP addresses,
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   address, and including the Metric measured from the node transmitting
   the AODVv2 message to the IP address in the route update.  IP
   addresses and prefix length are encoded within an RFC 5444 AddrBlk,
   and the SeqNum and Metric associated with each address in the AddrBlk
   are encoded in RFC 5444 AddrTLVs.  A RREQ message advertises a route
   to OrigNode, and a RREP message analogously advertises a route to
   TargNode.  In this section, RteMsg is either RREQ or RREP, and AdvRte
   is the route advertised by the RteMsg.  All SeqNum comparisons use
   signed 16-bit arithmetic.

6.1.  Evaluating Incoming Routing Information

   If the incoming RteMsg does not have a Metric Type Message TLV, then
   the metric information contained by AdvRte is considered to be of
   type DEFAULT_METRIC_TYPE -- in other words, 3 (for HopCount) unless
   changed by administrative action.  The AODVv2 router (HandlingRtr)
   checks the advertised route (AdvRte) to see whether the AdvRte should
   be used to update an existing route table entry.  HandlingRtr
   searches its route table to see if there is a route table entry with
   the same Metric Type as the AdvRte, matching AdvRte.Address.  If not,
   HandlingRtr creates a route table entry for AdvRte.Address as
   described in Section 6.2.  Otherwise, HandlingRtr compares the
   incoming routing information for AdvRte against the already stored
   routing information in the route table entry (Route) for
   AdvRte.Address, as described next.

   Route[AdvRte.Address] uses the same metric type as the incoming
   routing information, and the route entry contains Route.SeqNum,
   Route.Metric, and Route.State.  Define AdvRte.SeqNum and
   AdvRte.Metric to be the corresponding routing information for
   Route.Address in the incoming RteMsg.  Define AdvRte.Cost to be
   (AdvRte.Metric + Cost(L)), where L is the link from which the
   incoming message was received.  The incoming routing information is
   classified as follows:

   1.  Stale::  AdvRte.SeqNum < Route.SeqNum :
      If AdvRte.SeqNum < Route.SeqNum the incoming information is stale.
      Using stale routing information is not allowed, since that might
      result in routing loops.  In this case, HandlingRtr MUST NOT
      update the route table entry using the routing information for
      AdvRte.Address.
   2.  Unsafe against loops::  (TRUE != LoopFree (AdvRte, Route)) :
      If AdvRte is not Stale (as in (1) above), AdvRte.Cost is next
      considered to insure loop freedom.  If (TRUE != LoopFree (AdvRte,
      Route)) (see Section 5.6), then the incoming AdvRte information is
      not guaranteed to prevent routing loops, and it MUST NOT be used
      to update any route table entry.
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      (AdvRte.Cost >= Route.Metric) && (Route.State != Broken)
      When AdvRte.SeqNum is the same as in a valid route table entry,
      and LoopFree (AdvRte, Route) assures loop freedom, incoming
      information still does not offer any improvement over the existing
      route table information if AdvRte.Cost >= Route.Metric.  Using
      such incoming routing information to update a route table entry is
      not recommended.
   4.  Offers improvement::
      Advertised routing information that does not match any of the
      above criteria is better than existing route table information and
      SHOULD be used to improve the route table.  The following pseudo-
      code illustrates whether advertised routing information should be
      used to update an existing route table entry as described in
      Section 6.2.

     (AdvRte.SeqNum > Route.SeqNum) OR
         ((AdvRte.SeqNum == Route.SeqNum) AND
                [(AdvRte.Cost < Route.Metric) OR
                 ((Route.State == Broken) && LoopFree (AdvRte, Route))])

      The above logic corresponds to placing the following conditions
      (compared to the existing route table entry) on the advertised
      route update before it can be used:

      *  it is more recent, or
      *  it is not stale and is less costly, or
      *  it can safely repair a broken route.

6.2.  Applying Route Updates To Route Table Entries

   To apply the route update, a route table entry for AdvRte.Address is
   either found to already exist in the route table, or else a new route
   table entry for AdvRte.Address is created and inserted into the route
   table.  If the route table entry already exists, and the state is
   Expired or Broken, then the state is reset to be Idle.  If the route
   table entry had to be created, the state is set to be Active.  The
   route table entry is populated with the following information:

   o  If AdvRte.PrefixLength exists, then Route.PrefixLength :=
      AdvRte.PrefixLength.  Otherwise, Route.PrefixLength := maximum
      length for address family (either 32 or 128).
   o  Route.SeqNum := AdvRte.SeqNum
   o  Route.NextHopAddress := IP.SourceAddress (i.e., an address of the
      node from which the RteMsg was received)
   o  Route.NextHopInterface is set to the interface on which RteMsg was
      received
   o  Route.MetricType := AdvRte.MetricType.
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   o  Route.LastUsed := Current_Time
   o  If RteMsg.VALIDITY_TIME is included, then
      Route.ExpirationTime := Current_Time + RteMsg.VALIDITY_TIME,
      otherwise, Route.ExpirationTime := Current_Time + (ACTIVE_INTERVAL
      + MAX_IDLETIME).

   With these assignments to the route table entry, a route has been
   made available, and the route can be used to send any buffered data
   packets and subsequently to forward any incoming data packets for
   Route.Address.  An updated route entry also fulfills any outstanding
   route discovery (RREQ) attempts for Route.Address.

6.3.  Route Table Entry Timeouts

   During normal operation, AODVv2 does not require any explicit
   timeouts to manage the lifetime of a route.  However, the route table
   entry MUST be examined before using it to forward a packet, as
   discussed in Section 8.1.  Any required expiry or deletion can occur
   at that time.  Nevertheless, it is permissible to implement timers
   and timeouts to achieve the same effect.

   At any time, the route table can be examined and route table entries
   can be expunged according to their current state at the time of
   examination, as follows.

   o  An Active route MUST NOT be expunged.
   o  An Idle route SHOULD NOT be expunged.
   o  An Expired route MAY be expunged (least recently used first).
   o  A route MUST be expunged if (Current_Time - Route.LastUsed) >=
      MAX_SEQNUM_LIFETIME.
   o  A route MUST be expunged if Current_Time >= Route.ExpirationTime

   If precursor lists are maintained for the route (as described in
   Section 13.3) then the precursor lists must also be expunged at the
   same time that the route itself is expunged.

7.  Routing Messages RREQ and RREP (RteMsgs)

   AODVv2 message types RREQ and RREP are together known as Routing
   Messages (RteMsgs) and are used to discover a route between an
   Originating and Target Node, denoted here by OrigNode and TargNode.
   The constructed route is bidirectional, enabling packets to flow
   between OrigNode and TargNode.  RREQ and RREP have similar
   information and function, but have some differences in their rules
   for handling.  When a node receives a RREQ or a RREP, the node then
   creates or updates a route to the OrigNode or the TargNode
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   RREQ messages are typically multicast to solicit a RREP, whereas RREP
   is typically unicast as a response to RREQ.

   When an AODVv2 router needs to forward a data packet from a node
   (OrigNode) in its set of router clients, and it does not have a
   forwarding route toward the packet's IP destination address
   (TargNode), the AODVv2 router (RREQ_Gen) generates a RREQ (as
   described in Section 7.3) to discover a route toward TargNode.
   Subsequently RREQ_Gen awaits reception of an RREP message (see
   Section 7.4) or other route table update (see Section 6.2) to
   establish a route toward TargNode.  The RREQ message contains routing
   information to enable RREQ recipients to route packets back to
   OrigNode, and the RREP message contains routing information enabling
   RREP recipients to route packets to TargNode.

7.1.  Route Discovery Retries and Buffering

   After issuing a RREQ, as described above RREQ_Gen awaits a RREP
   providing a bidirectional route toward Target Node.  If the RREP is
   not received within RREQ_WAIT_TIME, RREQ_Gen MAY retry the Route
   Discovery by generating another RREQ.  Route Discovery SHOULD be
   considered to have failed after DISCOVERY_ATTEMPTS_MAX and the
   corresponding wait time for a RREP response to the final RREQ.  After
   the attempted Route Discovery has failed, RREQ_Gen MUST wait at least
   RREQ_HOLDDOWN_TIME before attempting another Route Discovery to the
   same destination.

   To reduce congestion in a network, repeated attempts at route
   discovery for a particular Target Node SHOULD utilize a binary
   exponential backoff.

   Data packets awaiting a route SHOULD be buffered by RREQ_Gen.  This
   buffer SHOULD have a fixed limited size (BUFFER_SIZE_PACKETS or
   BUFFER_SIZE_BYTES).  Determining which packets to discard first is a
   matter of policy at each AODVv2 router; in the absence of policy
   constraints, by default older data packets SHOULD be discarded first.
   Buffering of data packets can have both positive and negative effects
   (albeit usually positive).  Nodes without sufficient memory available
   for buffering SHOULD be configured to disable buffering by
   configuring BUFFER_SIZE_PACKETS == 0 and BUFFER_SIZE_BYTES == 0.
   Doing so will affect the latency required for launching TCP
   applications to new destinations.

   If a route discovery attempt has failed (i.e., DISCOVERY_ATTEMPTS_MAX
   attempts have been made without receiving a RREP) to find a route
   toward the Target Node, any data packets buffered for the
   corresponding Target Node MUST BE dropped and a Destination
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   of the data packet.  The code for the ICMP message is 1 (Host
   unreachable error).  If RREQ_Gen is not the source (OrigNode), then
   the ICMP is sent over the interface from which OrigNode sent the
   packet to the AODVv2 router.

7.2.  RteMsg Structure

   AODVv2 specifies that all control plane messages between Routers
   SHOULD use the Generalised Mobile Ad-hoc Network Packet and Message
   Format [RFC5444], which provides a multiplexed transport for multiple
   protocols.  AODVv2 therefore specifies Route Messages that have
   components that map to message elements in RFC5444 but, in line with
   the concept of use, does not specify which order the messages should
   be arranged in an RFC5444 packet.  An implementation of an RFC5444
   parser may choose to optimise the content of certain message elements
   to reduce control plane overhead.

   AODVv2 uses the following RFC5444 message elements:


   o  Address of the originating node, OrigNode, which should be mapped
      to the <msg-orig-addr> element in <msg-header>.
   o  Message Hop Count, <msg-hop-count>, which should be mapped to the
      <msg-hop-count> element in <msg-header>.
   o  Message Hop Limit, <msg-hop-limit>, which should be mapped to the
      <msg-hop-limit> element in <msg-header>.

   RteMsgs have the following general format:

       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |                    RFC 5444 Message Header                    |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |                       MsgTLVs (optional)                      |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |                AddrBlk := {OrigNode,TargNode}                 |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |      AddrBlk.PrefixLength[OrigNode OR TargNode] (Optional)    |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |              OrigSeqNum_TLV AND/OR TargSeqNum_TLV             |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |                Metric TLV {OrigNode, TargNode}                |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+

            Figure 1: RREQ and RREP (RteMsg) message structure

   Required RFC 5444 Message Header Fields

      *  <msg-hop-limit>



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      *  Metric Type Message TLV, if Metric Type != 3
   Optional RFC 5444 Message Header Fields

      *  <msg-hop-count>
      *  Metric Type TLV (Metric Type for Metric AddrTLV)
      *  AckReq TLV (Acknowledgement Requested)
   AddrBlk
      The Address Block contains the IP addresses for RREQ Originating
      and Target Node (OrigNode and TargNode).  For both RREP and RREQ,
      OrigNode and TargNode are as identified in the context of the RREQ
      message originator.
   OrigSeqNum AND/OR TargSeqNum AddrTLV
      At least one of OrigSeqNum or TargSeqNum Address Block TLV is
      REQUIRED and carries the destination sequence numbers associated
      with OrigNode or TargNode respectively.
   Metric AddrTLV
      The Metric AddrTLV is REQUIRED and carries the route metric
      information associated with either OrigNode or TargNode.

   RteMsgs carry information about OrigNode and TargNode.  Since their
   addresses may appear in arbitrary order within the RFC 5444 AddrBlk,
   the OrigSeqNum and/or TargSeqNum TLVs must be used to distinguish the
   nature of the node addresses present in the AddrBlk.  In each RteMsg,
   either the OrigSeqNum TLV or TargSeqNum TLV MUST appear.  Both TLVs
   MAY appear in the same RteMsg when SeqNum information is available
   for both OrigNode and TargNode, but each one MUST NOT appear more
   than once, because there is only one OrigNode and only one TargNode
   address in the AddrBlk.  The TLV flag thassingleindex MUST be set for
   these TLVs.

   If the OrigSeqNum TLV appears, then the address range for the
   OrigSeqNum TLV MUST be limited to a single position in the AddrBlk.
   That position is used as the OrigNdx, identifying the OrigNode
   address.  The other address in the AddrBlk is, by elimination, the
   TargNode address, and TargNdx is set appropriately.

   Otherwise, if the TargSeqNum TLV appears, then the address range for
   the TargSeqNum TLV MUST be limited to a single position in the
   AddrBlk.  That position is used as the TargNdx, identifying the
   TargNode address.  The other address in the AddrBlk is, by
   elimination, the OrigNode address, and OrigNdx is set appropriately.

7.3.  RREQ Generation

   The AODVv2 router generating the RREQ (RREQ_Gen) on behalf of its
   client OrigNode follows the steps in this section.  OrigNode MUST be
   a unicast address.  The order of protocol elements is illustrated
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   1.  RREQ_Gen MUST increment its SeqNum by one (1) according to the
       rules specified in Section 5.5.  This assures that each node
       receiving the RREQ will update its route table using the
       information in the RREQ.
   2.  <msg-hop-limit> SHOULD be set to MAX_HOPCOUNT.
   3.  <msg-hop-count>, if included, MUST be set to 0.

       *  This RFC 5444 constraint causes certain RREQ payloads to incur
          additional enlargement (otherwise, <msg-hop-count> could often
          be used as the metric).
   4.  RREQ.AddrBlk := {OrigNode.Addr, TargNode.Addr}

       Let OrigNdx and TargNdx denote the indexes of OrigNode and
       TargNode respectively in the RREQ.AddrBlk list.
   5.  If Route[OrigNode].PrefixLength/8 is equal to the number of bytes
       in the addresses of the RREQ (4 for IPv4, 16 for IPv6), then no
       <prefix-length> is included with the RREQ.AddrBlk.  Otherwise,
       RREQ.PrefixLength[OrigNdx] := Route[OrigNode].PrefixLength
       according to the rules of RFC 5444 AddrBlk encoding.
   6.  RREQ.OrigSeqNum_TLV[OrigNdx] := RREQ_Gen's SeqNum
   7.  RREQ.TargSeqNum_TLV[TargNdx] := TargNode's SeqNum (only if known)

       RREQ_Gen SHOULD include TargNode's SeqNum, if a previous value of
       the TargNode's SeqNum is known (e.g., from an invalid route table
       entry using longest-prefix matching).  If TargNode's SeqNum is
       not included, AODVv2 routers handling the RREQ assume that
       RREQ_Gen does not have that information.
   8.  RREQ.Metric_TLV[OrigNdx] := Route[OrigNode].Metric

   An example RREQ message format is illustrated in Appendix B.1.

7.4.  RREP Generation

   This section specifies the generation of an RREP by an AODVv2 router
   (RREP_Gen) that provides connectivity for the Target Node (TargNode)
   of a RREQ, thus enabling the establishment of a route between
   OrigNode and TargNode.  If TargNode is not a unicast IP address the
   RREP MUST NOT be generated, and processing for the RREQ is complete.
   Before transmitting a RREP, the routing information of the RREQ is
   processed as specified in Section 6.2; after such processing,
   RREP_Gen has an updated route to OrigNode as well as TargNode.  The
   basic format of an RREP conforms to the structure for RteMsgs as
   shown in Figure 1.

   RREP_Gen generates the RREP as follows:

   1.   RREP_Gen checks the RREQ against recently received RREQ
        information as specified in Section 7.6.  If a previously



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        received RREQ has made the information in the incoming RREQ to
        be redundant, no RREP is generated and processing is complete.
   2.   RREP_Gen MUST increment its SeqNum by one (1) according to the
        rules specified in Section 5.5.
   3.   RREP.AddrBlk := {OrigNode.Addr, TargNode.Addr}

        Let OrigNdx and TargNdx denote the indexes of OrigNode and
        TargNode respectively in the RREQ.AddrBlk list.
   4.   RREP.TargSeqNum_TLV[TargNdx]  := RREP_Gen's SeqNum
   5.   If Route[TargNode].PrefixLength/8 is equal to the number of
        bytes in the addresses of the RREQ (4 for IPv4, 16 for IPv6),
        then no <prefix-length> is included with the RREP.AddrBlk.
        Otherwise, RREP.PrefixLength[TargNdx] :=
        Route[TargNode].PrefixLength according to the rules of RFC 5444
        AddrBlk encoding.
   6.   If (DEFAULT != Route[TargNode].MetricType) then include the
        Metric Type message TLV and assign RREP.MetricType[TargNdx]  :=
        Route[TargNode].MetricType
   7.   RREP.Metric_TLV[TargNdx]  := Route[TargNode].Metric
   8.   <msg-hop-count>, if included, MUST be set to 0.
   9.   <msg-hop-limit> SHOULD be set to RREQ.<msg-hop-count>.
   10.  IP.DestinationAddress := Route[OrigNode].NextHop

   An example message format for RREP is illustrated in Appendix B.2.

7.5.  Handling a Received RteMsg

   Before an AODVv2 router can make use of a received RteMsg (i.e., RREQ
   or RREP), the router first must verify that the RteMsg is permissible
   according to the following steps.  OrigNdx and TargNdx are set
   according to the rules in Section 7.2.  For RREQ, RteMsg.Metric is
   Metric_TLV[OrigNdx].  For RREP, RteMsg.Metric is Metric_TLV[TargNdx].
   In this section (unless qualified by additional description such as
   "upstream" or "neighboring") all occurrences of the term "router"
   refer to the AODVv2 router handling the received RteMsg.

   1.  A router MUST handle RteMsgs only from neighbors as specified in
       Section 5.4.  RteMsgs from other sources MUST be disregarded.
   2.  The router examines the RteMsg to ascertain that it contains the
       required information: <msg-hop-limit>, TargNode.Addr,
       OrigNode.Addr, RteMsg.Metric, and either RteMsg.OrigSeqNum or
       RteMsg.TargSeqNum.  If the required information does not exist,
       the message is disregarded.
   3.  The router checks that OrigNode.Addr and TargNode.Addr are valid
       routable unicast addresses.  If not, the message is disregarded.
   4.  The router checks the Metric Type MsgTLV (if present) to assure
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       information in the RREQ or RREP is known.  If not, the message is
       disregarded.

       *  DISCUSSION: or, can change the AddrBlk metric to use HopCount,
          e.g., measured from <msg-hop-count>.
   5.  If (MAX_METRIC[RteMsg.MetricType] - Cost(L)) <= RteMsg.Metric,
       the RteMsg is disregarded, where Cost(L) denotes the cost of
       traversing the incoming link (i.e., as measured by the network
       interface receiving the incoming RteMsg).

   An AODVv2 router handles a permissible RteMsg according to the
   following steps.

   1.  The router MUST process the routing information for OrigNode and
       TargNode contained in the RteMsg as specified in Section 6.1.
   2.  If RteMsg.<msg-hop-limit> is zero (0), no further action is
       taken, and the RteMsg is not regenerated.  Otherwise, the router
       MUST decrement RteMsg.<msg-hop-limit>.
   3.  If the RteMsg.<msg-hop-count> is present, and MAX_HOPCOUNT <=
       <msg-hop-count>, then no further action is taken.  Otherwise, the
       router MUST increment RteMsg.<msg-hop-count>

   Further actions to transmit an updated RteMsg depend upon whether the
   incoming RteMsg is an RREP or an RREQ.

7.5.1.  Additional Handling for Incoming RREQ

   o  By sending a RREQ, a router advertises that it will route for
      addresses contained in the RteMsg based on the information
      enclosed.  The router MAY choose not to send the RREQ, though not
      resending the RREQ could decrease connectivity in the network or
      result in nonoptimal paths.  The circumstances under which a
      router might choose not to re-transmit a RREQ are not specified in
      this document.  Some examples might include the following:

      *  The router is already heavily loaded and does not want to
         advertise routing for more traffic
      *  The router recently transmitted identical routing information
         (e.g. in a RREQ advertising the same metric) Section 7.6
      *  The router is low on energy and has to reduce energy expended
         for sending protocol messages or packet forwarding

      Unless the router is prepared to send a RREQ, it halts processing.
   o  If the upstream router sending a RREQ is in the Blacklist, and
      Current_Time < Blacklist.RemoveTime, then the router receiving
      that RREQ MUST NOT transmit any outgoing RteMsg, and processing is
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   o  Otherwise, if the upstream router is in the Blacklist, and
      Current_Time >= Blacklist.RemoveTime, then the upstream router
      SHOULD be removed from the Blacklist, and message processing
      continued.
   o  The incoming RREQ MUST be checked against previously received
      information from the RREQ Table (Section 7.6).  If the information
      in the incoming RteMsg is redundant, then then no further action
      is taken.
   o  If TargNode is a client of the router receiving the RREQ, then the
      router generates a RREP message as specified in Section 7.4, and
      subsequently processing for the RREQ is complete.  Otherwise,
      processing continues as follows.
   o  If (DEFAULT != Route[OrigNode].MetricType) then include the Metric
      Type message TLV and assign RREQ.MetricType :=
      Route[OrigNode].MetricType
   o  RREQ.Metric_TLV[OrigNdx] := Route[OrigNode].Metric
   o  The RREQ (with updated fields as specified above>) SHOULD be sent
      to the IP multicast address LL-MANET-Routers [RFC5498].  If the
      RREQ is unicast, the IP.DestinationAddress is set to
      Route[RREQ.TargNode].NextHopAddress.

7.5.2.  Additional Handling for Incoming RREP

   As always, OrigNode and TargNode are named in the context of RREQ_Gen
   (i.e., the router originating the RREQ for which the RREP was
   generated) (see Table 1).  OrigNdx and TargNdx are set according to
   the rules in Section 7.2.

   o  If no forwarding route exists to OrigNode, then a RERR SHOULD be
      transmitted to RREP.AddrBlk[TargNdx].  Otherwise, if HandlingRtr
      is not RREQ_Gen then the outgoing RREP is sent to the
      Route.NextHopAddress for the RREP.AddrBlk[OrigNdx].
   o  If HandlingRtr is RREQ_Gen then the RREP satisfies RREQ_Gen's
      earlier RREQ, and RREP processing is completed.  Any packets
      buffered for OrigNode should be transmitted.

7.6.  Suppressing Redundant RREQ messages

   Since RREQ messages are multicast, there are common circumstances in
   which an AODVv2 router might transmit a redundant response (RREQ or
   RREP), duplicating the information transmitted in response to some
   other recent RREQ (see Section 5.7).  Before responding, an AODVv2
   router MUST suppress such RREQ messages.  This is done by checking
   the list of recently received RREQs to determine whether the incoming
   RREQ is redundant, as follows:

   o  The AODVv2 router searches the RREQ Table for recent entries with
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      entry, the incoming RREQ message is not suppressed.  A new entry
      for the incoming RREQ is created in the RREQ Table.
   o  If there is such an entry, and the incoming RREQ has a newer
      sequence number, the incoming RREQ is not suppressed, and the
      existing table entry MUST be updated to reflect the new Sequence
      Number and Metric.
   o  Similarly, if the Sequence Numbers are the same, and the incoming
      RREQ offers a better Metric, the incoming RREQ is not suppressed,
      and the RREQ Table entry MUST be updated to reflect the new
      Metric.
   o  Otherwise, the incoming RREQ is suppressed.

8.  Route Maintenance and RERR Messages

   AODVv2 routers attempt to maintain active routes.  When a routing
   problem is encountered, an AODVv2 router (denoted RERR_Gen) attempts
   to quickly notify upstream routers.  Two kinds of routing problems
   may trigger generation of a RERR message.  The first case happens
   when the router receives a packet but does not have a route for the
   destination of the packet.  The second case happens immediately upon
   detection of a broken link (see Section 8.2) of an Active route, to
   quickly notify upstream AODVv2 routers that that route is no longer
   available.

8.1.  Maintaining Route Lifetimes During Packet Forwarding

   Before using a route to forward a packet, an AODVv2 router MUST check
   the status of the route as follows.

   o  If the route is marked has been marked as Broken, it cannot be
      used for forwarding.
   o  If Current_Time > Route.ExpirationTime, the route table entry has
      expired, and cannot be used for forwarding.
   o  Similarly, if (Route.ExpirationTime == MAXTIME), and if
      (Current_Time - Route.LastUsed) > (ACTIVE_INTERVAL +
      MAX_IDLETIME), the route has expired, and cannot be used for
      forwarding.
   o  Furthermore, if Current_Time - Route.LastUsed >
      (MAX_SEQNUM_LIFETIME), the route table entry MUST be expunged.

   If any of the above route error conditions hold true, the route
   cannot be used to forward the packet, and an RERR message MUST be
   generated (see Section 8.3).

   Otherwise, Route.LastUsed := Current_Time, and the packet is
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   Optionally, if a precursor list is maintained for the route, see
   Section 13.3 for precursor lifetime operations.

8.2.  Active Next-hop Router Adjacency Monitoring

   Neighboring routers MAY form an adjacency based on various
   information or other protocols; for example, exchange of AODVv2
   routing messages, other protocols (e.g.  NDP [RFC4861] or NHDP
   [RFC6130]), or manual configuration.  Loss of a routing adjacency may
   also be indicated by similar information.  AODVv2 routers SHOULD
   monitor connectivity to adjacent routers along active routes.  This
   monitoring can be accomplished by one or several mechanisms,
   including:

   o  Neighborhood discovery [RFC6130]
   o  Route timeout
   o  Lower layer trigger that a link is broken
   o  TCP timeouts
   o  Promiscuous listening
   o  Other monitoring mechanisms or heuristics

   If a next-hop AODVv2 router has become unreachable, RERR_Gen follows
   the procedures specified in Section 8.3.2.

8.3.  RERR Generation

   An RERR message is generated by a AODVv2 router (i.e., RERR_Gen) in
   order to notify upstream routers that packets cannot be delivered to
   certain destinations.  An RERR message has the following general
   structure:

       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |     RFC 5444 Message Header <msg-hoplimit> <msg-hopcount>     |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |      UnreachableNode AddrBlk (Unreachable Node addresses)     |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |        AddrBlk.PrefixLength[UnreachableNodes] (Optional)      |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |               UnreachableNode SeqNum AddrBlk TLV              |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |               UnreachableNode PfxLen AddrBlk TLV              |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+

                     Figure 2: RERR message structure

   Required Message Header Fields
      The RERR MUST contain the following:




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      *  <msg-hop-limit>
      *  PktSource Message TLV (see Section 15), if the RERR is unicast
      *  Metric Type Message TLV (see Section 15), if Metric Type != 3
   Optional Message Header Fields
      The RERR SHOULD contain the following:

      *  <msg-hop-count>
   UnreachableNode AddrBlk
      This Address Block contains the IP addresses unreachable by AODVv2
      router transmitting the RERR.
   UnreachableNode.PrefixLength
      If needed, the Address Block can also carry the prefix length
      associated with each UnreachableNode.
   Sequence Number AddrBlk TLV
      This Address Block TLV carries the destination sequence number
      associated with each UnreachableNode when that information is
      available.

   There are two kinds of events indicating that packets cannot be
   delivered to certain destinations.  The two cases differ in the way
   that the neighboring IP destination address for the RERR is chosen,
   and in the way that the set of UnreachableNodes is identified.

   In both cases, the <msg-hop-limit> MUST be included and SHOULD be set
   to MAX_HOPCOUNT.  <msg-hop-count> SHOULD be included and set to 0, to
   facilitate use of various route repair strategies including expanding
   rings multicast and Intermediate RREP [I-D.perkins-irrep].

8.3.1.  Case 1: Undeliverable Packet

   The first case happens when the router receives a packet from another
   AODVv2 router but does not have a valid route for the destination of
   the packet.  In this case, there is exactly one UnreachableNode to be
   included in the RERR's AddrBlk (either IP.DestinationAddress from a
   data packet or the OrigNode address found in the AddrBlk of an RREP
   message).  The RERR SHOULD be sent to the multicast address LL-MANET-
   Routers, but RERR_Gen MAY instead send the RERR to the next hop
   towards the source IP address of the packet which was undeliverable.
   For unicast RERR, the PktSource Message TLV MUST be included,
   containing the the source IP address of the undeliverable packet, or
   the IP address of TargRtr in case the undeliverable packet was an
   RREP message generated by TargRtr.  If a Sequence Number for
   UnreachableNode is known, that Sequence Number SHOULD be included in
   a Seqnum AddrTLV the RERR.  Otherwise all nodes handling the RERR
   will assume their route through RERR_Gen towards the UnreachableNode
   is no longer valid and mark those routes as broken, regardless of the
   Sequence Number information for those routes.  RERR_Gen MUST discard
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   If an AODVv2 router receives an ICMP packet from the address of one
   of its client nodes, it simply relays the packet to the ICMP packet's
   destination address, and does not generate any RERR message.

8.3.2.  Case 2: Broken Link

   The second case happens when the link breaks to an active adjacent
   AODVv2 router (i.e., the next hop of an active route).  In this case,
   the RERR MUST be sent to the multicast address LL-MANET-Routers,
   except when the optional feature of maintaining precursor lists is
   used as specified in Section 13.3.  All routes (Active, Idle and
   Expired) that use the broken link MUST be marked as Broken.  The set
   of UnreachableNodes is initialized by identifying those Active routes
   which use the broken link.  For each such Active Route, Route.Dest is
   added to the set of Unreachable Nodes.  After the Active Routes using
   the broken link have all been included as UnreachableNodes, Idle
   routes MAY also be included, if allowed by the setting of
   ENABLE_IDLE_IN_RERR, as long as the packet size of the RERR does not
   exceed the MTU (interface "Maximum Transfer Unit") of the physical
   medium.

   If the set of UnreachableNodes is empty, no RERR is generated.
   Otherwise, RERR_Gen generates a new RERR, and the address of each
   UnreachableNode is inserted into an AddrBlock.  If any
   UnreachableNode.Addr entry is associated with a routing prefix (i.e.,
   a prefix length shorter than the maximum length for the address
   family), then the AddrBlk MUST include prefix lengths; otherwise, if
   no such entry, the prefix lengths NOT be included.  The value for
   each UnreachableNode's SeqNum (UnreachableNode.SeqNum) MUST be placed
   in the SeqNum AddrTLV.

   Every broken route reported in the RERR MUST have the same Metric
   Type.  If the Metric Type is not 3, then the RERR message MUST
   contain a Metric Type MsgTLV indicating the Metric Type of the broken
   route(s).

8.4.  Receiving and Handling RERR Messages

   When an AODVv2 router (HandlingRtr) receives a RERR message, it uses
   the information provided to invalidate affected routes.  If
   HandlingRtr has neighbors that are using the affected routes, then
   HandlingRtr subsequently sends an RERR message to those neighbors.
   This has the effect of regenerating the RERR information and is
   counted as another "hop" for purposes of properly modifying <msg-hop-
   limit> and <msg-hop-count> in the RERR message header.

   HandlingRtr examines the incoming RERR to assure that it contains
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   required information does not exist, the incoming RERR message is
   disregarded and further processing stopped.  Otherwise, for each
   UnreachableNode.Address, HandlingRtr searches its route table for a
   route using longest prefix matching.  If no such Route is found,
   processing is complete for that UnreachableNode.Address.  Otherwise,
   HandlingRtr verifies the following:

   1.  The UnreachableNode.Address is a routable unicast address.
   2.  Route.NextHopAddress is the same as RERR IP.SourceAddress.
   3.  Route.NextHopInterface is the same as the interface on which the
       RERR was received.
   4.  The UnreachableNode.SeqNum is unknown, OR Route.SeqNum <=
       UnreachableNode.SeqNum (using signed 16-bit arithmetic).

   If the Route satisfies all of the above conditions, HandlingRtr
   checks whether Route.PrefixLength is the same as the prefix length
   for UnreachableNode.Address.  If so, HandlingRtr simply sets the
   state for that Route to be Broken.  Otherwise, HandlingRtr creates a
   new route (call it BrokenRoute) with the same PrefixLength as the
   prefix length for UnreachableNode.Address, and sets Route.State ==
   Broken for BrokenRoute.  If the prefix length for the new route is
   shorter than Route.PrefixLength, then Route MUST be expunged from the
   route table (since it is a subroute of the larger route which is
   reported to be broken).  Furthermore, if <msg-hop-limit> is greater
   than 0, then HandlingRtr adds the UnreachableNode address and TLV
   information to an AddrBlk for delivery in the outgoing RERR message.

   If there are no UnreachableNode addresses to be transmitted in an
   RERR to upstream routers, HandlingRtr MUST discard the RERR, and no
   further action is taken.

   Otherwise, <msg-hop-limit> is decremented by one (1) and processing
   continues as follows:

   o  (Optional) If precursor lists are maintained, the outgoing RERR
      SHOULD be sent to the active precursors of the broken route as
      specified in Section 13.3.
   o  Otherwise, if the incoming RERR message was received at the LL-
      MANET-Routers [RFC5498] multicast address, the outgoing RERR
      SHOULD also be sent to LL-MANET-Routers.
   o  Otherwise, if the PktSource Message TLV is present, and
      HandlingRtr has a Route to PktSource.Addr, then HandlingRtr MUST
      send the outgoing RERR to Route[PktSource.Addr].NextHop.
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9.  Unknown Message and TLV Types

   For handling of messages that contain unknown TLV types, ignore the
   information for processing, but preserve it unmodified for
   forwarding.

10.  Simple Internet Attachment

   Simple Internet attachment means attachment of a stub (i.e., non-
   transit) network of AODVv2 routers to the Internet via a single
   Internet AODVv2 router (called IAR).

   As in any Internet-attached network, AODVv2 routers, and their
   clients, wishing to be reachable from hosts on the Internet MUST have
   IP addresses within the IAR's routable and topologically correct
   prefix (e.g. 191.0.2.0/24).

        /-------------------------\
       / +----------------+        \
      /  |  AODVv2 Router |         \
      |  |  191.0.2.2/32  |         |
      |  +----------------+         |            Routable
      |                       +-----+--------+   Prefix
      |                       |   Internet   |  /191.0.2/24
      |                       | AODVv2 Router| /
      |                       |  191.0.2.1   |/      /---------------\
      |                       | serving net  +------+    Internet     \
      |                       |  191.0.2/24  |      \                 /
      |                       +-----+--------+       \---------------/
      |         +----------------+  |
      |         |  AODVv2 Router |  |
      |         |  191.0.2.3/32  |  |
      \         +----------------+  /
       \                           /
        \-------------------------/

               Figure 3: Simple Internet Attachment Example

   When an AODVv2 router within the AODVv2 MANET wants to discover a
   route toward a node on the Internet, it uses the normal AODVv2 route
   discovery for that IP Destination Address.  The IAR MUST respond to
   RREQ on behalf of all Internet destinations.

   When a packet from a node on the Internet destined for a node in the
   AODVv2 MANET reaches the IAR, if the IAR does not have a route toward
   that destination it will perform normal AODVv2 route discovery for
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11.  Multiple Interfaces

   AODVv2 MAY be used with multiple interfaces; therefore, the
   particular interface over which packets arrive MUST be known whenever
   a packet is received.  Whenever a new route is created, the interface
   through which the route's destination can be reached is also recorded
   in the route table entry.

   When multiple interfaces are available, a node transmitting a
   multicast packet to LL-MANET-Routers MUST send the packet on all
   interfaces that have been configured for AODVv2 operation.

   Similarly, AODVv2 routers MUST subscribe to LL-MANET-Routers on all
   their AODVv2 interfaces.

12.  AODVv2 Control Message Generation Limits

   To avoid congestion, each AODVv2 router's rate of packet/message
   generation SHOULD be limited.  The rate and algorithm for limiting
   messages (CONTROL_TRAFFIC_LIMITS) is left to the implementor and
   should be administratively configurable.  AODVv2 messages SHOULD be
   discarded in the following order of preference: RREQ, RREP, and
   finally RERR.

13.  Optional Features

   Some optional features of AODVv2, associated with AODV, are not
   required by minimal implementations.  These features are expected to
   apply in networks with greater mobility, or larger node populations,
   or requiring reduced latency for application launches.  The optional
   features are as follows:

   o  Expanding Rings Multicast
   o  Intermediate RREPs (iRREPs): Without iRREP, only the destination
      can respond to a RREQ.
   o  Precursor lists.
   o  Reporting Multiple Unreachable Nodes.  An RERR message can carry
      more than one Unreachable Destination node for cases when a single
      link breakage causes multiple destinations to become unreachable
      from an intermediate router.
   o  RREP_ACK.
   o  Message Aggregation.

13.1.  Expanding Rings Multicast

   For multicast RREQ, <msg-hop-limit> MAY be set in accordance with an
   expanding ring search as described in [RFC3561] to limit the RREQ




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   propagation to a subset of the local network and possibly reduce
   route discovery overhead.

13.2.  Intermediate RREP

   This specification has been published as a separate Internet Draft
   [I-D.perkins-irrep].

13.3.  Precursor Lists and Notifications

   This section specifies an interoperable enhancement to AODVv2 (and
   possibly other reactive routing protocols) enabling more economical
   notifications to traffic sources upon determination that a route
   needed to forward such traffic to its destination has become Broken.

13.3.1.  Overview

   In many circumstances, there can be several sources of traffic for a
   certain destination.  Each such source of traffic is known as a
   "precursor" for the destination, as well as all upstream routers
   between the forwarding AODVv2 router and the traffic source.  For
   each active destination, an AODVv2 router MAY choose to keep track of
   the upstream neighbors that have provided traffic for that
   destination; there is no need to keep track of upstream routers any
   farther away than the next hop.

   Moreover, any particular link to an adjacent AODVv2 router may be a
   path component of multiple routes towards various destinations.  The
   precursors for all destinations using the next hop across any link
   are collectively known as the precursors for that next hop.

   When an AODVv2 router determines that an active link to one of its
   neighbors has broken, the AODVv2 router detecting the broken link
   must mark multiple routes as Broken, for each of the newly
   unreachable destinations, as described in Section 8.3.  Each route
   that relies on the newly broken link is no longer valid.
   Furthermore, the precursors of the broken link should be notified
   (using RERR) about the change in status of their route to a
   destination relying upon the broken next hop.

13.3.2.  Precursor Notification Details

   During normal operation, each AODVv2 router wishing to maintain
   precursor lists as described above, maintains a precursor table and
   updates the table whenever the node forwards traffic to one of the
   destinations in its route table.  For each precursor in the precursor
   list, a record must be maintained to indicate whether the precursor
   has been used for recent traffic (in other words, whether the



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   precursor is an Active precursor).  So, when traffic arrives from a
   precursor, the Current_Time is used to mark the time of last use for
   the precursor list element associated with that precursor.

   When an AODVv2 router detects that a link is broken, then for each
   precursor using that next hop, the node MAY notify the precursor
   using either unicast or multicast RERR:

   unicast RERR to each Active precursor
      This option is applicable when there are few Active precursors
      compared to the number of neighboring AODVv2 routers.
   multicast RERR to RERR_PRECURSORS
      RERR_PRECURSORS is, by default, LL-MANET-Routers [RFC5498].  This
      option is typically preferable when there are many precursors,
      since fewer packet transmissions are required.

   Each active upstream neighbor (i.e., precursor) MAY then execute the
   same procedure until all active upstream routers have received the
   RERR notification.

13.4.  Multicast RREP Response to RREQ

   The RREQ Target Router (RREP_Gen) MAY, as an alternative to
   unicasting a RREP, be configured to distribute routing information
   about the route toward the RREQ TargNode (RREP_Gen's client) more
   widely.  That is, RREP_Gen MAY be configured respond to a route
   discovery by generating a RREP, using the procedure in Section 7.4,
   but multicasting the RREP to LL-MANET-Routers [RFC5498] (subject to
   similar suppression algorithm for redundant RREP multicasts as
   described in Section 7.6).  The redundant message suppression must
   occur at every router handling the multicast RREP.  Afterwards,
   RREP_Gen processing for the incoming RREQ is complete.

   Broadcast RREP response to incoming RREQ was originally specified to
   handle unidirectional links, but it is expensive.  Due to the
   significant overhead, AODVv2 routers MUST NOT use multicast RREP
   unless configured to do so by setting the administrative parameter
   USE_MULTICAST_RREP.

13.5.  RREP_ACK

   Instead of relying on existing mechanisms for requesting verification
   of link bidirectionality during Route Discovery, RREP_Ack is provided
   as an optional feature and modeled on the RREP_Ack message type from
   AODV [RFC3561].

   Since the RREP_ACK is simply echoed back to the node from which the
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   address information (or TLVs).  Considerations of packet TTL are as
   specified in Section 5.4.  An example message format is illustrated
   in section Appendix B.4.

13.6.  Message Aggregation

   The aggregation of multiple messages into a packet is specified in
   RFC 5444 [RFC5444].

   Implementations MAY choose to briefly delay transmission of messages
   for the purpose of aggregation (into a single packet) or to improve
   performance by using jitter [RFC5148].

14.  Administratively Configurable Parameters and Timer Values

   AODVv2 uses various configurable parameters of various types:

   o  Timers
   o  Protocol constants
   o  Administrative (functional) controls
   o  Other administrative parameters and lists

   The tables in the following sections show the parameters along their
   definitions and default values (if any).

   Note: several fields have limited size (bits or bytes).  These sizes
   and their encoding may place specific limitations on the values that
   can be set.  For example, <msg-hop-count> is a 8-bit field and
   therefore MAX_HOPCOUNT cannot be larger than 255.

14.1.  Timers

   AODVv2 requires certain timing information to be associated with
   route table entries.  The default values are as follows, subject to
   future experience:
















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             +------------------------------+---------------+
             |             Name             | Default Value |
             +------------------------------+---------------+
             |       ACTIVE_INTERVAL        | 5 second      |
             |         MAX_IDLETIME         | 200 seconds   |
             |      MAX_BLACKLIST_TIME      | 200 seconds   |
             |     MAX_SEQNUM_LIFETIME      | 300 seconds   |
             |        RREQ_WAIT_TIME        | 2 seconds     |
             | UNICAST_MESSAGE_SENT_TIMEOUT | 1 second      |
             |      RREQ_HOLDDOWN_TIME      | 10 seconds    |
             +------------------------------+---------------+

                     Table 2: Timing Parameter Values

   The above timing parameter values have worked well for small and
   medium well-connected networks with moderate topology changes.

   The timing parameters SHOULD be administratively configurable for the
   network where AODVv2 is used.  Ideally, for networks with frequent
   topology changes the AODVv2 parameters should be adjusted using
   either experimentally determined values or dynamic adaptation.  For
   example, in networks with infrequent topology changes MAX_IDLETIME
   may be set to a much larger value.

14.2.  Protocol constants

   AODVv2 protocol constants typically do not require changes.  The
   following table lists these constants, along with their values and a
   reference to the specification describing their use.

   +------------------------+--------------------+---------------------+
   | Name                   | Default Value      | Description         |
   +------------------------+--------------------+---------------------+
   | DISCOVERY_ATTEMPTS_MAX | 3                  | Section 7.1         |
   | MAX_HOPCOUNT           | 20 hops            | Section 5.6         |
   | MAX_METRIC[i]          | Specified only for | Section 5.6         |
   |                        | HopCount           |                     |
   | MAXTIME                | [TBD]              | Maximum expressible |
   |                        |                    | clock time          |
   +------------------------+--------------------+---------------------+

                         Table 3: Parameter Values

14.3.  Administrative (functional) controls

   The following administrative controls may be used to change the
   operation of the network, by enabling optional behaviors.  These
   options are not required for correct routing behavior, although they



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   may potentially reduce AODVv2 protocol messaging in certain
   situations.  The default behavior is to NOT enable most such options,
   options.  Packet buffering is enabled by default.

      +------------------------+------------------------------------+
      |          Name          | Description                        |
      +------------------------+------------------------------------+
      |  DEFAULT_METRIC_TYPE   | 3 (i.e, Hop Count (see [RFC6551])) |
      |  ENABLE_IDLE_IN_RERR   | Section 8.3.2                      |
      |      ENABLE_IRREP      | Section 7.3                        |
      |   USE_MULTICAST_RREP   | Section 13.4                       |
      +------------------------+------------------------------------+

               Table 4: Administratively Configured Controls

14.4.  Other administrative parameters and lists

   The following table lists contains AODVv2 parameters which should be
   administratively configured for each specific network.

    +-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------+
    | Name                  | Default Value         | Cross Reference |
    +-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------+
    | AODVv2_INTERFACES     |                       | Section 4       |
    | BUFFER_SIZE_PACKETS   | 2                     | Section 7.1     |
    | BUFFER_SIZE_BYTES     | MAX_PACKET_SIZE [TBD] | Section 7.1     |
    | CLIENT_ADDRESSES      | AODVv2_INTERFACES     | Section 5.3     |
    | CONTROL_TRAFFIC_LIMIT | TBD [50 packets/sec?] | Section 12      |
    +-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------+

                 Table 5: Other Administrative Parameters

15.  IANA Considerations

   This section specifies several message types, message tlv-types, and
   address tlv-types.  Also, a new registry of 16-bit alternate metric
   types is specified.

15.1.  AODVv2 Message Types Specification












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          +----------------------------------------+------------+
          |                  Name                  | Type (TBD) |
          +----------------------------------------+------------+
          |          Route Request (RREQ)          |     10     |
          |           Route Reply (RREP)           |     11     |
          |           Route Error (RERR)           |     12     |
          | Route Reply Acknowledgement (RREP_ACK) |     13     |
          +----------------------------------------+------------+

                       Table 6: AODVv2 Message Types

15.2.  Message TLV Type Specification

   +-----------------------------------+-------+---------+-------------+
   | Name                              |  Type |  Length | Cross       |
   |                                   | (TBD) |    in   | Reference   |
   |                                   |       |  octets |             |
   +-----------------------------------+-------+---------+-------------+
   | Acknowledgment Request (AckReq)   |   10  |    0    | Section 5.2 |
   | Packet Source (PktSource)         |   11  | 4 or 16 | Section 8.3 |
   | Metric Type                       |   12  |    1    | Section 7.2 |
   +-----------------------------------+-------+---------+-------------+

                        Table 7: Message TLV Types

15.3.  Address Block TLV Specification

   +-----------------------------+--------+--------------+-------------+
   | Name                        |  Type  | Length       | Value       |
   |                             | (TBD)  |              |             |
   +-----------------------------+--------+--------------+-------------+
   | Metric                      |   10   | depends on   | Section 7.2 |
   |                             |        | Metric Type  |             |
   | Sequence Number (SeqNum)    |   11   | 2 octets     | Section 7.2 |
   | Originating Node Sequence   |   12   | 2 octets     | Section 7.2 |
   | Number (OrigSeqNum)         |        |              |             |
   | Target Node Sequence Number |   13   | 2 octets     | Section 7.2 |
   | (TargSeqNum)                |        |              |             |
   | VALIDITY_TIME               |   1    | 1 octet      | [RFC5497]   |
   +-----------------------------+--------+--------------+-------------+

                Table 8: Address Block TLV (AddrTLV) Types

15.4.  Metric Type Number Allocation

   Metric types are identified according to the assignments as specified
   in [RFC6551].  The metric type of the Hop Count metric is assigned to
   be 3, in order to maintain compatibility with that existing table of



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   values from RFC 6551.  Non-addititve metrics are not supported in
   this draft.

            +-----------------------+----------+-------------+
            |          Name         |   Type   | Metric Size |
            +-----------------------+----------+-------------+
            |      Unallocated      |  0 -- 2  |     TBD     |
            |       Hop Count       | 3 - TBD  |   1 octet   |
            |      Unallocated      | 4 -- 254 |     TBD     |
            |        Reserved       |   255    |  Undefined  |
            +-----------------------+----------+-------------+

                           Table 9: Metric Types

16.  Security Considerations

   The objective of the AODVv2 protocol is for each router to
   communicate reachability information about addresses for which it is
   responsible.  Positive routing information (i.e. a route exists) is
   distributed via RREQ and RREP messages.  Negative routing information
   (i.e. a route does not exist) is distributed via RERRs.  AODVv2
   routers store the information contained in these messages in order to
   properly forward data packets, and they generally provide this
   information to other AODVv2 routers.

   This section does not mandate any specific security measures.
   Instead, this section describes various security considerations and
   potential avenues to secure AODVv2 routing.

   The most important security mechanisms for AODVv2 routing are
   integrity/authentication and confidentiality.

   In situations where routing information or router identity are
   suspect, integrity and authentication techniques SHOULD be applied to
   AODVv2 messages.  In these situations, routing information that is
   distributed over multiple hops SHOULD also verify the integrity and
   identity of information based on originator of the routing
   information.

   A digital signature could be used to identify the source of AODVv2
   messages and information, along with its authenticity.  A nonce or
   timestamp SHOULD also be used to protect against replay attacks.  S/
   MIME and OpenPGP are two authentication/integrity protocols that
   could be adapted for this purpose.

   In situations where confidentiality of AODVv2 messages is important,
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   In certain situations, for example sending a RREP or RERR, an AODVv2
   router could include proof that it has previously received valid
   routing information to reach the destination, at one point of time in
   the past.  In situations where routers are suspected of transmitting
   maliciously erroneous information, the original routing information
   along with its security credentials SHOULD be included.

   Note that if multicast is used, any confidentiality and integrity
   algorithms used MUST permit multiple receivers to handle the message.

   Routing protocols, however, are prime targets for impersonation
   attacks.  In networks where the node membership is not known, it is
   difficult to determine the occurrence of impersonation attacks, and
   security prevention techniques are difficult at best.  However, when
   the network membership is known and there is a danger of such
   attacks, AODVv2 messages must be protected by the use of
   authentication techniques, such as those involving generation of
   unforgeable and cryptographically strong message digests or digital
   signatures.  While AODVv2 does not place restrictions on the
   authentication mechanism used for this purpose, IPsec Authentication
   Message (AH) is an appropriate choice for cases where the nodes share
   an appropriate security association that enables the use of AH.

   In particular, routing messages SHOULD be authenticated to avoid
   creation of spurious routes to a destination.  Otherwise, an attacker
   could masquerade as that destination and maliciously deny service to
   the destination and/or maliciously inspect and consume traffic
   intended for delivery to the destination.  RERR messages SHOULD be
   authenticated in order to prevent malicious nodes from disrupting
   active routes between communicating nodes.

   If the mobile nodes in the ad hoc network have pre-established
   security associations, the purposes for which the security
   associations are created should include that of authorizing the
   processing of AODVv2 control packets.  Given this understanding, the
   mobile nodes should be able to use the same authentication mechanisms
   based on their IP addresses as they would have used otherwise.

   If the mobile nodes in the ad hoc network have pre-established
   security associations, the purposes for which the security
   associations Most AODVv2 messages are transmitted to the multicast
   address LL-MANET-Routers [RFC5498].  It is therefore required for
   security that AODVv2 neighbors exchange security information that can
   be used to insert an ICV [RFC6621] into the AODVv2 message block
   [RFC5444].  This enables hop-by-hop security.  For destination-only
   RREP discovery procedures, AODVv2 routers that share a security
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   6621.  The establishment of these security associations is out of
   scope for this document.

17.  Acknowledgments

   AODVv2 is a descendant of the design of previous MANET on-demand
   protocols, especially AODV [RFC3561] and DSR [RFC4728].  Changes to
   previous MANET on-demand protocols stem from research and
   implementation experiences.  Thanks to Elizabeth Belding-Royer for
   her long time authorship of AODV.  Additional thanks to Derek Atkins,
   Emmanuel Baccelli, Abdussalam Baryun, Ramon Caceres, Thomas Clausen,
   Christopher Dearlove, Ulrich Herberg, Henner Jakob, Luke Klein-
   Berndt, Lars Kristensen, Tronje Krop, Koojana Kuladinithi, Kedar
   Namjoshi, Alexandru Petrescu, Henning Rogge, Fransisco Ros, Pedro
   Ruiz, Christoph Sommer, Lotte Steenbrink, Romain Thouvenin, Richard
   Trefler, Jiazi Yi, Seung Yi, and Cong Yuan, for their reviews AODVv2
   and DYMO, as well as numerous specification suggestions.

18.  References

18.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC5082]  Gill, V., Heasley, J., Meyer, D., Savola, P., and C.
              Pignataro, "The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism
              (GTSM)", RFC 5082, October 2007.

   [RFC5444]  Clausen, T., Dearlove, C., Dean, J., and C. Adjih,
              "Generalized Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) Packet/Message
              Format", RFC 5444, February 2009.

   [RFC5497]  Clausen, T. and C. Dearlove, "Representing Multi-Value
              Time in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)", RFC 5497, March
              2009.

   [RFC5498]  Chakeres, I., "IANA Allocations for Mobile Ad Hoc Network
              (MANET) Protocols", RFC 5498, March 2009.

   [RFC6551]  Vasseur, JP., Kim, M., Pister, K., Dejean, N., and D.
              Barthel, "Routing Metrics Used for Path Calculation in
              Low-Power and Lossy Networks", RFC 6551, March 2012.








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18.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.perkins-irrep]
              Perkins, C. and I. Chakeres, "Intermediate RREP for
              dynamic MANET On-demand (AODVv2) Routing", draft-perkins-
              irrep-02 (work in progress), November 2012.

   [Perkins94]
              Perkins, C. and P. Bhagwat, "Highly Dynamic Destination-
              Sequenced Distance-Vector Routing (DSDV) for Mobile
              Computers", Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '94 Conference
              on Communications Architectures, Protocols and
              Applications, London, UK, pp. 234-244, August 1994.

   [Perkins99]
              Perkins, C. and E. Royer, "Ad hoc On-Demand Distance
              Vector (AODV) Routing", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE
              Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, New
              Orleans, LA, pp. 90-100, February 1999.

   [RFC2501]  Corson, M. and J. Macker, "Mobile Ad hoc Networking
              (MANET): Routing Protocol Performance Issues and
              Evaluation Considerations", RFC 2501, January 1999.

   [RFC3561]  Perkins, C., Belding-Royer, E., and S. Das, "Ad hoc On-
              Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing", RFC 3561, July
              2003.

   [RFC4193]  Hinden, R. and B. Haberman, "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast
              Addresses", RFC 4193, October 2005.

   [RFC4728]  Johnson, D., Hu, Y., and D. Maltz, "The Dynamic Source
              Routing Protocol (DSR) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks for
              IPv4", RFC 4728, February 2007.

   [RFC4861]  Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman,
              "Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861,
              September 2007.

   [RFC5148]  Clausen, T., Dearlove, C., and B. Adamson, "Jitter
              Considerations in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)", RFC
              5148, February 2008.

   [RFC6130]  Clausen, T., Dearlove, C., and J. Dean, "Mobile Ad Hoc
              Network (MANET) Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP)",
              RFC 6130, April 2011.





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   [RFC6621]  Macker, J., "Simplified Multicast Forwarding", RFC 6621,
              May 2012.

Appendix A.  Example Algorithms for AODVv2 Protocol Operations

   The following subsections show example algorithms for protocol
   operations required by AODVv2, including RREQ, RREP, RERR, and RREP-
   ACK.

   Processing for RREQ, RREP, and RERR messages follows the following
   general outline:

   1.  Receive incoming message.
   2.  Update route table as appropriate.
   3.  Respond as needed, often regenerating the incoming message with
       updated information.

   Once the route table has been updated, the information contained
   there is known to be the most recent available information for any
   fields in the outgoing message.  For this reason, the algorithms are
   written as if outgoing message field values are assigned from the
   route table information, even though it is often equally appropriate
   to use fields from the incoming message.

   AODVv2_algorithms:

   o  Process_Routing_Info
   o  Generate_RREQ
   o  Receive_RREQ
   o  Regenerate_RREQ
   o  Generate_RREP
   o  Receive_RREP
   o  Regenerate_RREP
   o  Generate_RERR
   o  Receive_RERR
   o  Regenerate_RERR
   o  Generate_RREP_Ack
   o  Consume_RREP_Ack()
   o  Timeout RREP_Ack()

   The following lists indicate the meaning of the field names used in
   subsequent sections to describe message processing for the above
   algorithms.

   Incoming RREQ message parameters:

      inRREQ.origIP := originator IP address
      inRREQ.origSeq := originator IP sequence #



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      inRREQ.metType := metric type
      inRREQ.origMet := metric to originator
      inRREQ.targIP := target IP address
      inRREQ.targSeq := target sequence # (if known)
      inRREQ.hopLim := msg-hop-limit /* from RFC 5444 header */
      inRREQ.nbrIP := IP address of the neighbor that sent the RREQ

   Outgoing RREQ message parameters:

      outRREQ.origIP := originator IP address
      outRREQ.origSeq := originator IP sequence #
      outRREQ.metType := metric type
      outRREQ.origMet := metric to origNode {initially
      MIN_METRIC[MetType]}
      outRREQ.targIP := target IP address
      outRREQ.targSeq := target sequence # (if known)
      outRREQ.hopLim /* initially MAX_HOPCOUNT at originator */

   Incoming RREP message parameters:

      inRREP.hoplim /* msg-hop-limit from RFC 5444 header */
      inRREP.origIP := originator's IP address
      inRREP.metType := metric type
      inRREP.targIP := target IP address
      inRREP.targSeq := target sequence #
      inRREP.targMet := target's metric {initially MIN_METRIC[MetType]}
      inRREP.PfxLen

   Outgoing RREP message parameters:

      outRREP.origIP := originator's IP address
      outRREP.metType := metric type
      outRREP.targIP := target IP address
      outRREP.targSeq := target sequence #
      outRREP.targMet := target's metric {starting with zero}
      outRREP.PfxLen
      outRREP.hopLim /* initially MAX_HOPCOUNT at originator */

   Incoming RERR message parameters:

      inRERR.PktSrc := source IP of unforwardable packet (if present)
      inRERR.metType := metric type for routes to unreachable
      destinations
      inRERR.PfxLen[] := prefix lengths for unreachable destinations
      inRERR.LostDest[] := unreachable destinations
      inRERR.LostSeq[] := sequence #s for unreachable destinations

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      outRERR.PktSrc := source IP of unforwardable packet (if present)
      outRERR.metType := metric type for routes to unreachable
      destinations
      outRERR.PfxLen[] := prefix lengths for unreachable destinations
      outRERR.LostDest[] := unreachable destinations
      outRERR.LostSeq[] := sequence #s for unreachable destinations

A.1.  Subroutines for AODVv2 Protocol Operations


    /* Compare incoming route information to current route, maybe use */
    Process_Routing_Info (dest, seq#, metric_type, metric,
                                                       last_hop_metric)
      /* last_hop_metric: either Cost(inRREQ.netif) or (inRREP.netif) */
    {
    new_metric := metric + last_hop_metric;
    rte := Fetch_Route_Table_Entry (dest, seq#, metric_type);
    if (NULL == rte) {
        rte := Create_Route_Table_Entry
                (dest, seq#, metric_type, new_metric);
    } else if (seq# > rte.seq#) { /* stale rte route entry */
        Update_Route_Table_Entry (rte, seq#, metric_type, new_metric);
    } else if (seq# < rte.seq#) { /* stale incoming route infor */
        return(NULL);
    } else if (rte.state == broken) {  /* when (seq# == rte.seq#) */
        Update_Route_Table_Entry (rte, seq#, metric_type, new_metric);
    } else if (rte.metric > (new_metric) { /* and (seq# == rte.seq#) */
        Update_Route_Table_Entry (rte, seq#, metric_type, new_metric);
    } else {    /* incoming route information is not useful */
        return(NULL);
    }
    return (rte);
    }



A.2.  Example Algorithms for AODVv2 RREQ Operations

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    Generate_RREQ {
    /* Marshall parameters */
    outRREQ.origIP := IP address used by application
    outRREQ.origSeq := originating router's sequence #
    outRREQ.metType := (if included) metric type needed by application
    outRREQ.origMet := 0 (default) or MIN_METRIC(Metric_type)
    outRREQ.targIP := target IP address
    outRREQ.targSeq := target sequence # /* if known from route table */
    outRREQ.hopLim := msg-hop-limit     /* RFC 5444 */

    /* build RFC 5444 message header fields */
    {
        msg-type=RREQ (message is of type RREQ)
        MF=4 (Message Flags = 4 [only msg-hop-limit field is present])
        MAL=3 or 15 (Message Address Length [3 for IPv4, 15 for IPv6])
        msg-size=NN (octets -- counting MsgHdr, AddrBlk, and AddrTLVs)
        msg-hop-limit := MAX_HOPCOUNT
        if (Metric_type == DEFAULT) {
            msg.tlvs-length=0
        } else { /* Metric_type != HopCount */
            /* Build Metric_type Message TLV */
        }
    }

    /* build AddrBlk */
    num-addr := 2
    AddrBlk := {outRREQ.origIP and outRREQ.targIP addresses}

    /* Include each available Sequence Number in appropriate AddrTLV */
        /* put outRREQ.origSeq in OrigSeqNum AddrTLV */
        if (NULL != targSeq) {
            /* put outRREQ.targSeq in TargSeqNum AddrTLV */
        }

    /* Build Metric AddrTLV containing OrigNode metric */
        /* use MIN_METRIC(metric type) [==0 for default metric type */
    }


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     Receive_RREQ (inRREQ) {
     /* Extract inRREQ values */
     origRTE = Process_Routing_Info (inRREQ.origIP, inRREQ.origSeq, ...)
     if (inRREQ.targIP belongs to me or my client subnet) {
         Generate_RREP()
     } else if (inRREQ present in RREQ_table) {
         return;     /* don't regenerate RREQ... */
     } else if (inRREQ.nbrIP not present in blacklist) {
         Regenerate_RREQ(origRTE, inRREQ)
     } else if (blacklist_expiration_time > current_time) {
         return;     /* don't regenerate RREQ... */
     } else {
         Remove nbrIP from blacklist;
         Regenerate_RREQ(origRTE, inRREQ)
     }
     }


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    Regenerate_RREQ (origRTE, inRREQ) { /* called from receive_RREQ() */
    outRREQ.hopLim := inRREQ.hopLim - 1
    if (outRREQ.hopLim == 0) {  /* don't regenerate */
        return()
    }
    /* Marshall parameters */
    outRREQ.origIP := origRTE.origIP
    outRREQ.origSeq := origRTE.origSeq
    outRREQ.origMet := origRTE.origMet
    outRREQ.metType := origRTE.metType
    outRREQ.targIP := inRREQ.targIP
    outRREQ.targSeq := inRREQ.targSeq   /* if present */

    /* build RFC 5444 message header fields */
    {
        msg-type=RREQ (message is of type RREQ)
        MF=4 (Message Flags = 4 [only msg-hop-limit field is present])
        MAL=3 or 15 (Message Address Length [3 for IPv4, 15 for IPv6])
        msg-size=NN (octets -- counting MsgHdr, AddrBlk, and AddrTLVs)
        msg-hop-limit := MAX_METRIC(Metric Type) (default, MAX_HOPCOUNT)
        if (Metric_type == DEFAULT) {
            msg.tlvs-length=0
        } else { /* Metric_type != HopCount */
            /* Build Metric_type Message TLV */
        }
    }

    /* build AddrBlk */
    num-addr := 2
    AddrBlk := {outRREQ.origIP and outRREQ.targIP addresses}

    /* Include each available Sequence Number in its proper AddrTLV */
    /* put outRREQ.origSeq in OrigSeqNum AddrTLV */
    if (NULL != targSeq) {
        /* put outRREQ.targSeq in TargSeqNum AddrTLV */
    }

    /* Build Metric AddrTLV to contain outRREQ.origMet */

    }


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A.3.1.  Generate_RREP


     Generate_RREP {
     /* Marshall parameters */
     outRREP.origIP := origRTE.origIP
     metric_type := origRTE.metType  /* if not default */
     if (DEFAULT != metric_type)
         outRREP.metType := metric_type
     outRREP.targIP := inRREQ.targIP
     outRREP.targMet := MIN_METRIC(outRREP.metType) (0  by default)
     my_sequence_# := (1 + my_sequence_#) /* from nonvolatile storage */
     outRREP.targSeq := my_sequence_#

     /* build RFC 5444 message header fields */
     {
         msg-type=RREP
         MF=4 (Message Flags = 4 [only msg-hop-limit field is present])
         MAL=3 or 15 (Message Address Length [3 for IPv4, 15 for IPv6])
         msg-size=NN (octets -- counting MsgHdr, AddrBlk, and AddrTLVs)
         msg-hop-limit := MAX_HOPCOUNT
         /* Include the AckReq TLV when:
            - previous RREP does not seem to enable any data flow, OR
            - when RREQ is received from same OrigNode after RREP was
              unicast to targRTE.nextHop
          */
         if (DEFAULT != metric_type) {
             msg.tlvs-length=0
         } else { /* Metric_type != HopCount */
             /* Build Metric_type Message TLV */
         }
     }

     /* build AddrBlk */
     num-addr := 2
     AddrBlk := {outRREQ.origIP and outRREQ.targIP addresses}

     /* put outRREP.TargSeq in TargSeqNum AddrTLV */

     /* Build Metric AddrTLV containing TargNode metric */
     /* use MIN_METRIC(origRTE.metType) */
     }









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A.3.2.  Receive_RREP


    Receive_RREP (inRREP)
    {
    If (RREP includes AckReq TLV) {
        Generate_RREP_Ack()
    }
    /* Extract inRREP values */
    targRTE := Process_Routing_Info (inRREP.targIP, inRREP.targSeq, ...)
    if (inRREP.targIP belongs to me, a client, or a client subnet) {
        Consume_RREP(inRREP)
    } else {
        Regenerate_RREP(targRTE, inRREP)
    }
    }



































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A.3.3.  Regenerate_RREP


      Regenerate_RREP(targRTE, inRREP) {
      outRREP.hopLim := inRREP.hopLim - 1
      if (outRREP.hopLim == 0) {  /* don't regenerate */
          return()
      }
      /* Marshall parameters */
      outRREP.targIP := targRTE.targIP
      outRREP.targSeq := targRTE.targSeq
      outRREP.targMet := targRTE.targMet
      metric_type := origRTE.metType  /* if not default */
      if (DEFAULT != metric_type)
          outRREP.metType := metric_type
      outRREP.origIP := inRREP.origIP
      outRREP.nextHop := targRTE.nextHop

      /* build RFC 5444 message header fields */
      {
          msg-type=RREP (message is of type RREP)
          MF=4 (Message Flags = 4 [only msg-hop-limit field is present])
          MAL=3 or 15 (Message Address Length [3 for IPv4, 15 for IPv6])
          msg-size=NN (octets -- counting MsgHdr, AddrBlk, and AddrTLVs)
          /* Include the AckReq TLV when:
             - previous RREP does not seem to enable any data flow, OR
             - when RREQ is received from same OrigNode after RREP was
               unicast to targRTE.nextHop
           */
          msg-hop-limit := outRREP.hopLim;
          if (metric_type == DEFAULT) {
              msg.tlvs-length=0
          } else { /* Metric_type != HopCount */
              /* Build Metric_type Message TLV */
          }
      }

      /* build AddrBlk */
      num-addr := 2
      AddrBlk := {outRREQ.origIP and outRREQ.targIP addresses}

      /* put outRREP.targSeq in TargSeqNum AddrTLV */

      /* Build Metric AddrTLV containing TargNode metric */
      }






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A.3.4.  Consume_RREP


       /* executed by RREQ_Gen */
       /* TargNode route table entry was updated by Receive_RREP() */
       Consume_RREP() {
           /* Transmit buffered packet(s) (if any) to TargNode */
       }


A.4.  Example Algorithms for AODVv2 RERR Operations

A.4.1.  Generate_RERR


      Generate_RERR()
      {
      metric_type := DEFAULT;
      switch (error_type) in {
      case (broken_link):
          num-broken-addr=0
          /* find unreachable destinations, seqNums, prefixes */
          for (every rte (route table entry) in route table) {
              if (broken_link == rte.next_hop) {
              rte.state := broken;
              outRERR.LostDest[num-broken-addr] := rte.dest
              outRERR.LostSeq[num-broken-addr] := rte.seq#
              outRERR.PfxLen[num-broken-addr] := rte.pfx
              metric_type := rte.metType
              num-broken-addr := (num-broken-addr+1)
              }
          }
          /* No offending-src for this case */
      case (undeliverable packet):
          offending-src := undeliverable_packet.srcIP
          outRERR.LostDest[] := undeliverable_packet.destIP
          outRERR.LostPfxSiz[] := MAX_PFX_SIZE   /* 31 or 127 */
          num-broken-addr=1
      }

      /* build RFC 5444 message header fields */
      {
          msg-type=RERR (message is of type RERR)
          MF=4 (Message Flags = 4 [only msg-hop-limit field is present])
          MAL=3 or 15 (Message Address Length [3 for IPv4, 15 for IPv6])
          msg-size=NN (octets -- counting MsgHdr, AddrBlk, and AddrTLVs)
          msg-hop-limit := outRERR.hopLim;
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              /* Build PktSource Message TLV */
          }
          if (metric_type != DEFAULT) { /* Metric_type != HopCount */
              /* Build Metric_type Message TLV */
          }
      }

      /* build AddrBlk */
      num-addr := num-broken-addr;
      AddrBlk := outRERR.LostDest[];

      /* Add AddrBlk Seq# TLV */
      Seq#TLV := outRERR.LostSeq[]

      /* only add AddrBlk PfxSiz TLV if prefixes are nondefault */
      for (pfx in outRERR.LostPfx[]) {
          if (pfx != Max_Prefix_Size) { /* 31 for IPv4, 127 for IPv6 */
              PfxSizTLV := outRERR.LostPfx[]
              return;
          }
      }
      }


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       Receive_RERR (inERR)
       {
       /* Extract inERR values */
       next_hop := inRERR.nbrIP
       offending-src := inRERR.offending-src;  /* NULL if not present */

       precursors[] := NULL;
       num-broken-addr := 0;
       in-broken-addr := 0;
       for (IPaddr := inRERR.LostDest[in-broken-addr]) {
           rte := Fetch_Route_Table_Entry (dest, metric_type);
           if (NULL == rte) {
               continue;
           } else if (rte.nextHop != inRERR.fromIP) {
               continue;
           } else if (NULL != rte.precursors) {
               /* add rte.precursors to precursors */
           } else if (rte.PfxSiz < inRERR.PfxSiz) {
           /***********************************************************
            If the reported prefix from the incoming RERR is *longer*
              than the prefix from Route Table, then create a new route
              with the longer prefix.
              The newly created route will be marked as broken, and used
              to regenerate RERR, NOT using shorter the routing prefix.
            This avoids unnecessarily invalidating the larger subnet.
            **********************************************************/
               rte := Create_Route_Table_Entry (IPaddr, seq#,
                   metric_type, new_metric, inRERR.PfxSiz);
           }
           LostDest[num-broken-addr] := rte.Dest;
           Seq#[num-broken-addr] := rte.Seq#;
           PfxSiz[num-broken-addr] := rte.PfxSiz;
           rte.state = broken;
           num-broken-addr := (num-broken-addr + 1);
           in-broken-addr := (in-broken-addr + 1);
       }
       if (num-broken-addr > 0) {
           Regenerate_RERR (offending-src, precursors,
               LostDest[], Seq#[], PfxSiz[])
       }
       }


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      Regenerate_RERR (offending-src, precursors,
          LostDest[], LostSeq#[], PfxSiz[])
      {
      /* build RFC 5444 message header fields */
      {
          msg-type=RERR (message is of type RERR)
          MF=4 (Message Flags = 4 [only msg-hop-limit field is present])
          MAL=3 or 15 (Message Address Length [3 for IPv4, 15 for IPv6])
          msg-size=NN (octets -- counting MsgHdr, AddrBlk, and AddrTLVs)
          outRERR.hopLim := inRERR.hopLim - 1
          msg-hop-limit := outRERR.hopLim;

          if (NULL != offending-src) {
              /* Build PktSource Message TLV */
          }
          if (metric_type != DEFAULT) { /* Metric_type != HopCount */
              /* Build Metric_type Message TLV */
          }
      }

      /* build AddrBlk */
      num-addr := num-broken-addr;
      AddrBlk := LostDest[];

      /* Add AddrBlk Seq# TLV */
      Seq#TLV := LostSeq[]

      /* only add AddrBlk PfxSiz TLV if prefixes are nondefault */
      for (pfx in PfxSiz[]) {
          if (pfx != Max_Prefix_Size) { /* 31 for IPv4, 127 for IPv6 */
              PfxSizTLV := PfxSiz[]
          }
      }   /* If all are default, don't include PfxSize AddrTLV */

      if (#precursors == 1) {
          unicast RERR to precursor[0];
      } else if (#precursors > 1) {
          multicast RERR to RERR_PRECURSORS;
      } else if (offending-src != NULL) {
          unicast RERR to offending-src;
      } else {
          multicast RERR to RERR_PRECURSORS;
      }
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A.5.  Example Algorithms for AODVv2 RREP-Ack Operations

A.5.1.  Generate_RREP_Ack


       /* To be sent when RREP includes the AckReq TLV */
       Generate_RREP_Ack()
       {
       /* assign RFC 5444 fields */
       msgtype := RREPAck
       MF := 0
       MAL := 3
       msg-size := 4
       }


A.5.2.  Consume_RREP_Ack


       Consume_RREP_Ack()
       {
       /* turn off timeout event for the node sending RREP_Ack */
       }


A.5.3.  Timeout_RREP_Ack


       Timeout_RREP_Ack()
       {
       /* insert unresponsive node into blacklist */
       }


Appendix B.  Example RFC 5444-compliant packet formats

   The following subsections show example RFC 5444-compliant packets for
   AODVv2 message types RREQ, RREP, RERR, and RREP-Ack.  These proposed
   message formats are designed based on expected savings from IPv6
   addressable MANET nodes, and a layout for the Address TLVs that may
   be viewed as natural, even if perhaps not the absolute most compact
   possible encoding.

   For RteMsgs, the msg-hdr fields are followed by at least one and
   optionally two Address Blocks.  The first AddrBlk contains OrigNode
   and TargNode.  For each AddrBlk, there must be AddrTLVs of type
   Metric and one of the SeqNum types (i.e, OrigSeqNum, TargSeqNum, or
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   There is no Metric Type Message TLV present, so the Metric AddrTLV
   measures HopCount.  The Metric AddrTLV also provides a way for the
   AODV router generating the RREQ or RREP to supply an initial nonzero
   cost for the route to its client node (OrigNode or TargNode, for RREQ
   or RREP respectively).

   In all cases, the length of an address (32 bits for IPv4 and 128 bits
   for IPv6) inside an AODVv2 message is indicated by the msg-addr-
   length (MAL) in the msg-header, as specified in [RFC5444].

   The RFC 5444 header preceding AODVv2 messages in this document has
   the format illustrated in Figure 4.

        0                   1                   2                   3
        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | PV=0 |  PF=0  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                     Figure 4: RFC 5444 Packet Header

   The fields in Figure 4 are to be interpreted as follows:

   o  PV=0 (Packet Header Version = 0)
   o  PF=0 (Packet Flags = 0)

B.1.  RREQ Message Format

   Figure 5 illustrates an example RREQ message format.






















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        0                   1                   2                   3
        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | msg-type=RREQ | MF=4  | MAL=3 |          msg-size=28          |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | msg-hop-limit |      msg.tlvs-length=0        |   num-addr=2  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |1|0|0|0|0| Rsv | head-length=3 | Head (bytes for Orig & Target):
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       :Head(Orig&Targ)|   Orig.Tail   |  Target.Tail  |addr.TLV.len=11:
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       :addr.TLV.len=11|type=OrigSeqNum|0|1|0|1|0|0|Rsv| Index-start=0 |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | tlv-length=2  |     Orig.Node Sequence #      |  type=Metric  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |0|1|0|1|0|0|Rsv| Index-start=0 | tlv-length=1  | OrigNodeHopCt |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

     Figure 5: Example IPv4 RREQ, with OrigSeqNum and Metric AddrTLVs

   The fields in Figure 5 are to be interpreted as follows:

   o  msg-type=RREQ (first [and only] message is of type RREQ)
   o  MF=4 (Message Flags = 4 [only msg-hop-limit field is present])
   o  MAL=3 (Message Address Length indicator [3 for IPv4, 15 for IPv6])
   o  msg-size=28 (octets -- counting MsgHdr, MsgTLVs, and AddrBlks)
   o  msg-hop-limit (initially MAX_HOPCOUNT by default)
   o  msg.tlvs-length=0 (no Message TLVs)
   o  num-addr=2 (OrigNode and TargNode addresses in RteMsg AddrBlock)
   o  AddrBlk flags:

      *  bit 0 (ahashead): 1
      *  bit 1 (ahasfulltail): 0
      *  bit 2 (ahaszerotail): 0
      *  bit 3 (ahassingleprelen): 0
      *  bit 4 (ahasmultiprelen): 0
      *  bits 5-7: RESERVED
   o  head-length=3 (length of head part of each address is 3 octets)
   o  Head (3 initial bytes for both Originating & Target addresses)
   o  Orig.Tail (4th byte of Originating Node IP address)
   o  Target.Tail (4th byte of Target Node IP address)
   o  addr.TLV.len = 11 (length in bytes for OrigSeqNum and Metric TLVs
   o  type=OrigSeqNum (type of first AddrBlk TLV, value 2 octets)
   o  AddrTLV flags for the OrigSeqNum TLV:

      *  bit 0 (thastypeext): 0
      *  bit 1 (thassingleindex): 1
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      *  bit 3 (thasvalue): 1
      *  bit 4 (thasextlen): 0
      *  bit 5 (tismultivalue): 0
      *  bits 6-7: RESERVED
   o  Index-start=0 (OrigSeqNum TLV value applies at index 0)
   o  tlv-length=2 (so there is only one TLV value, [1 = 2/2])
   o  Orig.Node Sequence # (TLV value for the OrigSeqNum TLV
   o  type=Metric (AddrTLV type of second AddrBlk TLV, values 1 octet)
   o  AddrTLV flags for Metric_TLV:

      *  bit 0 (thastypeext): 0
      *  bit 1 (thassingleindex): 1
      *  bit 2 (thasmultiindex): 0
      *  bit 3 (thasvalue): 1
      *  bit 4 (thasextlen): 0
      *  bit 5 (tismultivalue): 0
      *  bits 6-7: RESERVED
   o  Index-start=0 (Metric TLV values start at index 0)
   o  tlv-length=1 (so there is only one TLV value, [1 = 1/1])
   o  OrigNodeHopCt (first [and only] TLV value for the Metric TLV)

B.2.  RREP Message Format

   Figure 6 illustrates a packet format for an example RREP message.

        0                   1                   2                   3
        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | msg-type=RREP | MF=4  | MAL=3 |          msg-size=28          |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | msg-hop-limit |      msg.tlvs-length=0        |   num-addr=2  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |1|0|0|0|0| Rsv | head-length=3 | Head (bytes for Orig & Target):
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       :Head(Orig&Targ)|   Orig.Tail   |  Target.Tail  |addr.TLV.len=11:
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       :addr.TLV.len=11|type=TargSeqNum|0|1|0|1|0|0|Rsv| Index-start=1 |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | tlv-length=2  |     Targ.Node Sequence #      |  type=Metric  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |0|1|0|1|0|0|Rsv| Index-start=1 | tlv-length=1  | TargNodeHopCt |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

       Figure 6: Example IPv4 RREP, with TargSeqNum TLV and 1 Metric







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   The fields in Figure 6 are to be interpreted as follows:

   o  msg-type=RREP (first [and only] message is of type RREP)
   o  MF=4 (Message Flags = 4 [only msg-hop-limit field is present])
   o  MAL=3 (Message Address Length indicator [3 for IPv4, 15 for IPv6])
   o  msg-size=28 (octets -- counting MsgHdr, MsgTLVs, and AddrBlks)
   o  msg-hop-limit (initially MAX_HOPCOUNT by default)
   o  msg.tlvs-length=0 (no Message TLVs)
   o  num-addr=2 (OrigNode and TargNode addresses in RteMsg AddrBlock)
   o  AddrBlk flags:

      *  bit 0 (ahashead): 1
      *  bit 1 (ahasfulltail): 0
      *  bit 2 (ahaszerotail): 0
      *  bit 3 (ahassingleprelen): 0
      *  bit 4 (ahasmultiprelen): 0
      *  bits 5-7: RESERVED
   o  head-length=3 (length of head part of each address is 3 octets)
   o  Head (3 initial bytes for both Originating & Target addresses)
   o  Orig.Tail (4th byte of Originating Node IP address)
   o  Target.Tail (4th byte of Target Node IP address)
   o  addr.TLV.len = 11 (length in bytes for TargSeqNum TLV and Metric
      TLV
   o  type=TargSeqNum (type of first AddrBlk TLV, value 2 octets)
   o  AddrTLV flags for the TargSeqNum TLV:

      *  bit 0 (thastypeext): 0
      *  bit 1 (thassingleindex): 1
      *  bit 2 (thasmultiindex): 0
      *  bit 3 (thasvalue): 1
      *  bit 4 (thasextlen): 0
      *  bit 5 (tismultivalue): 0
      *  bits 6-7: RESERVED
   o  Index-start=1 (TargSeqNum TLV value applies to address at index 1)
   o  tlv-length=2 (there is one TLV value, 2 bytes in length)
   o  Targ.Node Sequence # (value for the TargSeqNum TLV)
   o  type=Metric (AddrTLV type of second AddrBlk TLV, value 1 octet)
   o  AddrTLV flags for the Metric TLV [01010000, same as for TargSeqNum
      TLV]
   o  Index-start=1 (Metric TLV values start at index 1)
   o  tlv-length=1 (there is one TLV value, 1 byte in length)
   o  TargNodeHopCt (first [and only] TLV value for Metric TLV)









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B.3.  RERR Message Format

   Figure 7 illustrates an example RERR message format.

        0                   1                   2                   3
        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | msg-type=RERR | MF=4  | MAL=3 |          msg-size=24          |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | msg-hop-limit |      msg.tlvs-length=0        |   num-addr=2  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |1|0|0|0|0| Rsv | head-length=3 | Head (for both destinations)  :
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       :Head (3rd byte)|  Tail(Dest_1) | Tail(Dest_2)  | addr.TLV.len=7:
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       :addr.TLV.len=7 |  type=SeqNum  |0|0|1|1|0|1|Rsv| tlv-length=4  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |        Dest_1 Sequence #      |        Dest_2 Sequence #      |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

          Figure 7: Example IPv4 RERR with Two Unreachable Nodes

   The fields in Figure 7 are to be interpreted as follows:

   o  msg-type=RERR (first [and only] message is of type RERR)
   o  MF=4 (Message Flags = 4 [only msg-hop-limit field is present])
   o  MAL=3 (Message Address Length indicator [3 for IPv4, 15 for IPv6])
   o  msg-size=24 (octets -- counting MsgHdr, MsgTLVs, and AddrBlks)
   o  msg-hop-limit (initially MAX_HOPCOUNT by default)
   o  msg.tlvs-length=0 (no Message TLVs)
   o  num-addr=2 (OrigNode and TargNode addresses in RteMsg AddrBlock)
   o  AddrBlk flags == 10000000 [same as RREQ and RREP AddrBlk examples]
   o  head-length=3 (length of head part of each address is 3 octets)
   o  Head (3 initial bytes for both Unreachable Nodes, Dest_1 and
      Dest_2)
   o  Dest_1.Tail (4th byte of Dest_1 IP address)
   o  Dest_2.Tail (4th byte of Dest_2 IP address)
   o  addr.TLV.len = 7 (length in bytes for SeqNum TLV
   o  type=SeqNum (AddrTLV type of AddrBlk TLV, values 2 octets each)
   o  AddrTLV flags for SeqNum TLV:

      *  bit 0 (thastypeext): 0
      *  bit 1 (thassingleindex): 0
      *  bit 2 (thasmultiindex): 1
      *  bit 3 (thasvalue): 1
      *  bit 4 (thasextlen): 0
      *  bit 5 (tismultivalue): 1
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   o  tlv-length=4 (so there are two TLV values, [2 = 4/2])
   o  Dest_1 Sequence # (first of two TLV values for the SeqNum TLV)
   o  Dest_2 Sequence # (second of two TLV values for the SeqNum TLV)

B.4.  RREP_ACK Message Format

   The figure below illustrates a packet format for an example RREP_ACK
   message.

        0                   1                   2                   3
        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |msgtype=RREPAck| MF=0  | MAL=3 |          msg-size=4           |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                      Figure 8: Example IPv4 RREP_ACK








Appendix C.  Changes since revision ...-04.txt

   This section lists the changes since AODVv2 revision ...-04.txt

   o  Normative text moved out of definitions into the relevant section
      of the body of the specification.
   o  Editorial improvements and improvements to consistent terminology
      were made.  Replaced "retransmit" by the slightly more accurate
      term "regenerate".
   o  Issues were resolved as discussed on the mailing list.
   o  Changed definition of LoopFree as suggested by Kedar Namjoshi and
      Richard Trefler to avoid the failure condition that they have
      described.  In order to make understanding easier, replaced
      abstract parameters R1 by RteMsg and R2 by Route to reduce the
      level of abstraction when the function LoopFree is discussed.
   o  Added text to clarify that different metrics may have different
      data types and different ranges of acceptable values.
   o  Added text to section "RteMsg Structure" to emphasize the proper
      use of RFC 5444.
   o  Included within the main body of the specification the mandatory
      setting of the TLV flag thassingleindex for TLVs OrigSeqNum and
      TargSeqNum.
   o  Made more extensive use of the AdvRte terminology, in order to
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      (i.e., RteMsg) versus the route advertised by the RteMsg (i.e.,
      AdvRte).

Appendix D.  Changes since revision ...-03.txt

   This section lists the changes since AODVv2 revision ...-03.txt

   o  An appendix was added to exhibit algorithmic code for
      implementation of AODVv2 functions.
   o  Numerous editorial improvements and improvements to consistent
      terminology were made.  Terminology related to prefix lengths was
      made consistent.  Some items listed in "Notational Conventions"
      were no longer used, and so deleted.
   o  Issues were resolved as discussed on the mailing list.
   o  Appropriate instances of "may" were changed to "MAY".
   o  Definition inserted for "upstream".
   o  Route.Precursors included as an *optional* route table field
   o  Reworded text to avoid use of "relevant".
   o  Deleted references to "DestOnly" flag.
   o  Refined statements about Metric Type TLV to allow for omission
      when Metric Type == HopCount.
   o  Bulletized list in section 8.1
   o  ENABLE_IDLE_UNREACHABLE renamed to be ENABLE_IDLE_IN_RERR
   o  Transmission and subscription to LL-MANET-Routers converted to
      MUST from SHOULD.

Appendix E.  Changes since revision ...-02.txt

   This section lists the changes since AODVv2 revision ...-02.txt

   o  The "Added Node" feature was removed.  This feature was intended
      to enable additional routing information to be carried within a
      RREQ or a RREP message, thus increasing the amount of topological
      information available to nodes along a routing path.  However,
      enlarging the packet size to include information which might never
      be used can increase congestion of the wireless medium.  The
      feature can be included as an optional feature at a later date
      when better algorithms are understood for determining when the
      inclusion of additional routing information might be worthwhile.
   o  Numerous editorial improvements and improvements to consistent
      terminology were made.  Instances of OrigNodeNdx and TargNodeNdx
      were replaced by OrigNdx and TargNdx, to be consistent with the
      terminology shown in Table 1.
   o  Example RREQ and RREP message formats shown in the Appendices were
      changed to use OrigSeqNum and TargSeqNum message TLVs instead of
      using the SeqNum message TLV.
   o  Inclusion of the OrigNode's SeqNum in the RREP message is not
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      incompletely specified in previous versions of the draft, and very
      little benefit is foreseen for including that information, since
      reverse path forwarding is used for the RREP.
   o  Additional acknowledgements were included, and contributors names
      were alphabetized.
   o  Definitions in the Terminology section capitalize the term to be
      defined.
   o  Uncited bibliographic entries deleted.
   o  Ancient "Changes" sections were deleted.

Appendix F.  Multi-homing Considerations

   Multi-homing is not supported by the AODVv2 specification.  There has
   been previous work indicating that it can be supported by expanding
   the sequence number to include the AODVv2 router's IP address as a
   parsable field of the SeqNum.  Otherwise, comparing sequence numbers
   would not work to evaluate freshness.  Even when the IP address is
   included, there isn't a good way to compare sequence numbers from
   different IP addresses, but at least a handling node can determine
   whether the two given sequence numbers are comparable.  If the route
   table can store multiple routes for the same destination, then multi-
   homing can work with sequence numbers augmented by IP addresses.

   This non-normative information is provided simply to document the
   results of previous efforts to enable multi-homing.  The intention is
   to simplify the task of future specification if multihoming becomes
   needed for reactive protocol operation.

Appendix G.  Shifting Network Prefix Advertisement Between AODVv2
             Routers

   Only one AODVv2 router within a MANET SHOULD be responsible for a
   particular address at any time.  If two AODVv2 routers dynamically
   shift the advertisement of a network prefix, correct AODVv2 routing
   behavior must be observed.  The AODVv2 router adding the new network
   prefix must wait for any existing routing information about this
   network prefix to be purged from the network.  Therefore, it must
   wait at least ROUTER_SEQNUM_AGE_MAX_TIMEOUT after the previous AODVv2
   router for this address stopped advertising routing information on
   its behalf.

Authors' Addresses









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   Charles E. Perkins
   Futurewei Inc.
   2330 Central Expressway
   Santa Clara, CA  95050
   USA

   Phone: +1-408-330-5305
   Email: charliep@computer.org


   Stan Ratliff
   Cisco
   170 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA  95134
   USA

   Email: sratliff@cisco.com


   John Dowdell
   Airbus Defence and Space
   Celtic Springs
   Newport, Wales  NP10 8FZ
   United Kingdom

   Email: john.dowdell@cassidian.com

























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