Mobile Ad hoc Networks Working Group                          C. Perkins
Internet-Draft                                                 Futurewei
Intended status: Standards Track                              S. Ratliff
Expires: August 29, 2013                                           Cisco
                                                              J. Dowdell
                                                               Cassidian
                                                       February 25, 2013


                Dynamic MANET On-demand (AODVv2) Routing
                        draft-ietf-manet-dymo-26

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 on-demand
   convergence in dynamic topologies.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3.  Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   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 . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     5.4.  AODVv2 Packet Header Fields and Information Elements . . . 13
     5.5.  Sequence Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     5.6.  Enabling Alternate Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     5.7.  RREQ Table: Received RREQ Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   6.  AODVv2 Operations on Route Table Entries . . . . . . . . . . . 18
     6.1.  Evaluating Incoming Routing Information  . . . . . . . . . 19
     6.2.  Applying Route Updates To Route Table Entries  . . . . . . 20
     6.3.  Route Table Entry Timeouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
   7.  Routing Messages RREQ and RREP (RteMsgs) . . . . . . . . . . . 21
     7.1.  Route Discovery Retries and Buffering  . . . . . . . . . . 22
     7.2.  RteMsg Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
     7.3.  RREQ Generation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
     7.4.  RREP Generation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
     7.5.  Handling a Received RteMsg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
       7.5.1.  Additional Handling for Incoming RREQ  . . . . . . . . 28
       7.5.2.  Additional Handling for Incoming RREP  . . . . . . . . 29
     7.6.  Suppressing Redundant RREQ messages  . . . . . . . . . . . 30
   8.  Route Maintenance and RERR Messages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
     8.1.  Maintaining Route Lifetimes During Packet Forwarding . . . 30
     8.2.  Active Next-hop Router Adjacency Monitoring  . . . . . . . 31
     8.3.  RERR Generation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
       8.3.1.  Case 1: Undeliverable Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
       8.3.2.  Case 2: Broken Link  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
     8.4.  Receiving and Handling RERR Messages . . . . . . . . . . . 34
   9.  Unknown Message and TLV Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
   10. Simple Internet Attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
   11. Multiple Interfaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
   12. AODVv2 Control Packet/Message Generation Limits  . . . . . . . 37
   13. Optional Features  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
     13.1. Expanding Rings Multicast  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
     13.2. Intermediate RREP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
     13.3. Precursor Lists and Notifications  . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
       13.3.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38



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       13.3.2. Precursor Notification Details . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
     13.4. Multicast RREP Response to RREQ  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
     13.5. RREP_ACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
     13.6. Message Aggregation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
     13.7. Added Routing Information in RteMsgs . . . . . . . . . . . 40
       13.7.1. Including Added Node Information . . . . . . . . . . . 40
       13.7.2. Handling Added Node Information  . . . . . . . . . . . 41
   14. Administratively Configurable Parameters and Timer Values  . . 42
     14.1. Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
     14.2. Protocol constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
     14.3. Administrative (functional) controls . . . . . . . . . . . 44
     14.4. Other administrative parameters and lists  . . . . . . . . 44
   15. IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
     15.1. AODVv2 Message Types Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
     15.2. Message TLV Type Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
     15.3. Address Block TLV Specification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
     15.4. Metric Type Number Allocation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
   16. Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
   17. Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
   18. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
     18.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
     18.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
   Appendix A.  Example RFC 5444-compliant packet formats . . . . . . 50
     A.1.  RREQ Message Format  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
     A.2.  RREP Message Format  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
     A.3.  RERR Message Format  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
     A.4.  RREP_ACK Message Format  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
   Appendix B.  Changes since revision ...-25.txt . . . . . . . . . . 56
   Appendix C.  Changes since revision ...-24.txt . . . . . . . . . . 57
   Appendix D.  Changes between revisions ...-21.txt and
                ...-24.txt  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
   Appendix E.  Shifting Network Prefix Advertisement Between
                AODVv2 Routers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

















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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 retransmission 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 downstream 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.

   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,
   AODVv2 uses RFC 5444 message and TLV formats.


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].



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   This document also uses some terminology from [RFC5444].

   This document defines the following terminology:

   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.
      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; 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.

   Current_Time
      The current time as maintained by the AODVv2 router.

   disregard
      Ignore for further processing (see Section 5.4), and discard
      unless it is required to keep the message in the packet for
      purposes of authentication.

   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.




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   Originating Node (OrigNode)
      The Originating Node is the node that launched the application
      requiring communication with the Target Node.  If OrigNode is not
      itself an AODVv2 router, its AODVv2 router (RREQ_Gen) has the
      responsibility to generate a AODVv2 RREQ message on behalf of
      OrigNode when necessary to discover a route.

   reactive
      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 essentially synonymous with "on-demand".

   Routable Unicast IP Address
      A routable unicast IP address is a unicast IP address that when
      put into the IP.DestinationAddress field is scoped sufficiently to
      be forwarded by a router.  Globally-scoped unicast IP addresses
      and Unique Local Addresses (ULAs) [RFC6549] 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 RREQ
      TargetNode and OrigNode, 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 TargetNode.  An
      AODVv2 router processing a RREQ receives routing information for
      the RREQ OrigNode.

   Router Client
      An AODVv2 router may be configured with a list of other IP
      addresses and networks which correspond to other non-router nodes
      which require the services of the AODVv2 router for route
      discovery and maintenance.  An AODVv2 router is always its own
      client, so that the list of client IP addresses is never empty.

   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 for TargNode.







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   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)
      AODVv2 mandates that each AODVv2 router 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, 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 for which a route is needed.

   Type-Length-Value structure (TLV)
      A generic way to represent information as specified in [RFC5444].

   Unreachable Node (UnreachableNode)
      An UnreachableNode is a node for which a forwarding route is
      unknown.

   valid route
      A route that can be used for forwarding; in other words a route
      that is not Broken or Expired.
























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3.  Notational Conventions

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

    +---------------------+------------------------------------------+
    |       Notation      |    Information Location and/or Meaning   |
    +---------------------+------------------------------------------+
    |     Route[Addr]     |     A route table entry towards Addr     |
    | Route[Addr].{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 |
    |  AddrBlk[OrigNode]  |             AddrBlk[OrigNdx]             |
    |  AddrBlk[TargNode]  |             AddrBlk[TargNdx]             |
    |       AddrTLV       |       an RFC 5444 Address Block TLV      |
    |      AddrTLV[1]     |         the first item in AddrTLV        |
    |      AddrTLV[N]     |          the Nth item in AddrTLV         |
    |  AddrTLV[OrigNode]  |             AddrTLV[OrigNdx]             |
    |  AddrTLV[TargNode]  |             AddrTLV[TargNdx]             |
    |      MetricTLV      |        Metric AddrTLV for AddrBlk        |
    |      SeqNumTLV      |    Sequence Number AddrTLV for AddrBlk   |
    |    OrigSeqNumTLV    | Originating Node Sequence Number AddrTLV |
    |    TargSeqNumTLV    |    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          |
    |     HandlingRtr     |              Handling Router             |
    |       TargNode      |                Target Node               |
    |   UnreachableNode   |             Unreachable Node             |
    +---------------------+------------------------------------------+

                                  Table 1


4.  Applicability Statement

   The AODVv2 routing protocol is 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



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

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

   AODVv2 is applicable to memory constrained devices, since little
   routing state is maintained in each AODVv2 router.  Only routing
   information related to routes between active sources and destinations
   is 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 (i.e.,
   "hosts", or, in this document, "clients"), reachable via those
   interfaces.  Each AODVv2 router, if serving router clients other than
   itself, is configured with information about the IP addresses of its
   clients.  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 mentioned in Appendix E.  Address assignment procedures are
   entirely out of scope for AODVv2.  Any such node which is not itself
   an AODVv2 router SHOULD NOT be served by more than one AODVv2 router
   at any one time.

   Multi-homing is difficult unless the sequence number is expanded to
   include the AODVv2 router's IP address as well as 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
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   same destination, then multi-homing can work with sequence numbers
   augmented by IP addresses.

   AODVv2 routers perform route discovery to find a route toward a
   particular destination.  Therefore, AODVv2 routers MUST must be
   configured to respond to RREQs for a certain set of addresses.  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, either blacklists (see Section 5.2) 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 which the cost is
   measured.

   The routing algorithm in AODVv2 may be operated at layers other than
   the network layer, using layer-appropriate addresses.  The routing
   algorithm makes 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.

   Conceptually, a route table entry has the following fields:

   Route.Address
      The (host or network) destination address of the node(s)
      associated with the routing table entry

   Route.PrefixLength
      The length of the netmask/prefix.  If the value of the
      Route.PrefixLength is not INVALID_PREFIX_LENGTH and is different
      than the length of addresses in the address family used by the
      AODVv2 routers, the associated address is a routing prefix, rather
      than a host address.




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   Route.SeqNum
      The Sequence Number associated with a route table entry

   Route.NextHopAddress
      An IP address of the adjacent AODVv2 router on the path toward the
      Route.Address

   Route.NextHopInterface
      The interface used to send packets toward the Route.Address

   Route.LastUsed
      The time that this route was last used

   Route.ExpirationTime
      The time at which this route must expire

   Route.Broken
      A flag indicating whether this Route is broken.  This flag is set
      to true if the next-hop becomes unreachable or in response to
      processing to a RERR (see Section 8.4)

   Route.MetricType
      The type of the metric for the route towards Route.Address

   Route.Metric
      The cost of the route towards Route.Address

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

   Active
      An Active route is in current use for forwarding packets

   Idle
      An Idle route can be used for forwarding packets, even though it
      is not in current use

   Expired
      After a route has been idle for too long, it expires, and may no
      longer be used for forwarding packets

   Broken
      A route marked as Broken cannot be used for forwarding packets but
      still has valid destination sequence number information.







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   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).

   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.  After an idle route
   remains Idle for MAX_IDLETIME, it becomes an Expired route.  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.

   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
   considered stale by any other AODVv2 router in the MANET.

   When the link to a route's next hop is broken, the route is marked as
   being Broken, and the route may no longer be used.

5.2.  Bidirectional Connectivity and Blacklists

   To avoid repeated failure of Route Discovery, an AODVv2 router
   (HandlingRtr) handling a RREP message MAY attempt to verify
   connectivity to the next upstream router towards AODVv2 router
   originating an RREQ message, by including the Acknowledgement Request
   (AckReq) message TLV (see Section 15.2) in the RREP.  Any unicast
   packet will satisfy the Acknowledgement Request, for example an ICMP
   REPLY message.  If the verification is not received within
   UNICAST_MESSAGE_SENT_TIMEOUT, HandlingRtr SHOULD put the upstream
   neighbor in the blacklist.  RREQs received from a blacklisted node
   SHOULD NOT be retransmitted 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 nodes along with their time
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   Blacklist.Node
      The IP address of the node that did not verify bidirectional
      connectivity.

   Blacklist.RemoveTime
      The time at which Blacklist.Node will 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.  AODVv2 defines the Sequence Number to be the
   same for the AODVv2 router and each of its clients.

   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
   defined by the routing prefix of the Client Network.  The list of
   Routing Clients for an AODVv2 router is never empty, since an AODVv2
   router is always its own client as well.

5.4.  AODVv2 Packet Header Fields and Information Elements

   In its default mode of operation, AODVv2 transmits UDP packets using
   the parameters for port number and IP protocol specified in [RFC5498]
   to carry protocol packets.  By default, AODVv2 packets 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
   receiving AODVv2 messages.  In order to reduce multicast overhead,
   retransmitting 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 retransmit 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



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   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 packets 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.  According to RFC 5444, each such
      TLV may itself include an array of values.

   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-
   header, as specified in [RFC5444].

   When multiple messages are aggregated into a single packet according
   to RFC 5444 formatting, and the aggregation of messages is also
   authenticated (e.g., with IPsec), and the IP destination is multiple
   hops away, it becomes infeasible to delete individual messages.  In
   such cases, instead of deleting individual messages, they are
   maintained in the aggregation of messages, but simply ignored for
   further processing.  In such cases where individual messages cannot
   be deleted, in this document "disregarded" means "ignored".
   Otherwise, any such "disregarded" AODVv2 messages SHOULD be deleted
   from the aggregated messages in the RFC 5444 packet.

5.5.  Sequence Numbers

   Sequence Numbers allow AODVv2 routers to evaluate the freshness of
   routing information.  Proper maintenance of sequence numbers assures
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   AODVv2 routers is monotonically increasing along any path from any
   source to the destination.  As a consequence, loop freedom is
   assured.

   Each AODVv2 router in the network MUST maintain its own sequence
   number.  An AODVv2 router increments its SeqNum as follows.  Most of
   the time, SeqNum is incremented by simply adding one (1).  But to
   increment SeqNum when it has the value of the largest possible number
   representable as a 16-bit unsigned integer (i.e., 65,535), it MUST be
   set 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.Broken for each entry.  Furthermore the AODVv2 router MUST wait
   for at least MAX_SEQNUM_LIFETIME before transmitting or
   retransmitting 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
   the default metric associated with routes in MANET.  Unfortunately,
   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
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   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, LoopFree(R1,R2) will only be invoked for
   routes R1 and R2 to the same destination which use the same metric.

   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
   the hop count between the router and the destination.  For routes R1
   and R2 using Metric Type 3, LoopFree (R1, R2) is TRUE when Cost(R2)
   <= (Cost(R1) + 1).  The specification of Cost(R) and LoopFree(R1,R2)
   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.  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
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   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.
   Otherwise, multicast RREQs are likely to be retransmitted 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
   somehow been delayed in the network, it is needed for each AODVv2
   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  Metric Type

   o  OrigNode address

   o  TargNode address

   o  Sequence Number

   o  Metric





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   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.  Nevertheless, 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,
   along with the SeqNum and prefix length associated with each IP
   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.  Optionally, there may be AddedNode
   route updates included in AODVv2 messages, as specified in
   Section 13.7.  In this section, RteMsg is either RREQ or RREP,
   RteMsg.Addr[i] denotes the [i]th address in an RFC 5444 AddrBlk of
   the RteMsg.  RteMsg.PrefixLength[i] denotes the associated prefix
   length for RteMsg.Addr[i], and RteMsg.{field} denotes the
   corresponding value in the named AddrTLV block associated with
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6.1.  Evaluating Incoming Routing Information

   If the incoming RteMsg does not have a MetricType Message TLV, then
   the metric information contained by RteMsg is considered to be of
   type DEFAULT_METRIC_TYPE -- which is 3 (for HopCount) unless changed
   by administrative action.  Whenever an AODVv2 router (HandlingRtr)
   handles an incoming RteMsg (i.e., RREQ or RREP), for every relevant
   address (RteMsg.Addr) in the RteMsg, HandlingRtr searches its route
   table to see if there is a route table entry with the same MetricType
   of the RteMsg, matching RteMsg.Addr.  If not, HandlingRtr creates a
   route table entry for RteMsg.Addr as described in Section 6.2.
   Otherwise, HandlingRtr compares the incoming routing information in
   RteMsg against the already stored routing information in the route
   table entry (Route) for RteMsg.Addr, as described below.

   Suppose Route[RteMsg.Addr] uses the same metric type as the incoming
   routing information, and the route entry contains Route.SeqNum,
   Route.Metric, and Route.Broken.  Suppose the incoming routing
   information for Route.Addr is RteMsg.SeqNum and RteMsg.Metric.
   Define RteMsg.Cost to be (RteMsg.Metric + Cost(L)), where L is the
   incoming link.  The incoming routing information is classified as
   follows:

   1. Stale::  RteMsg.SeqNum < Route.SeqNum :
      If RteMsg.SeqNum < Route.SeqNum the incoming information is stale.
      Using stale routing information is not allowed, since that might
      result in routing loops.  HandlingRtr MUST NOT update the route
      table entry using the routing information for RteMsg.Addr.

   2. Unsafe against loops::  (TRUE != LoopFree (RteMsg, Route)) :
      If RteMsg is not Stale (as in (1) above), RteMsg.Cost is next
      considered to insure loop freedom.  If (TRUE != LoopFree (RteMsg,
      Route)) (see Section 5.6), then the incoming RteMsg information is
      not guaranteed to prevent routing loops, and it MUST NOT be used
      to update any route table entry.

   3. More costly::
      (RteMsg.Cost >= Route.Metric) && (Route.Broken==FALSE)
      When RteMsg.SeqNum is the same as in a valid route table entry,
      and LoopFree (RteMsg, Route) assures loop freedom, incoming
      information still does not offer any improvement over the existing
      route table information if RteMsg.Cost >= Route.Metric.  Using
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   4. Offers improvement::
      Incoming routing information that does not match any of the above
      criteria is better than existing routing table information and
      SHOULD be used to improve the route table.  The following pseudo-
      code illustrates whether incoming routing information should be
      used to update an existing route table entry as described in
      Section 6.2.

            (RteMsg.SeqNum > Route.SeqNum) OR
           {(RteMsg.SeqNum == Route.SeqNum) AND
          [(RteMsg.Cost < Route.Metric) OR
          ((Route.Broken == TRUE) && LoopFree (RteMsg, Route))]}

      The above logic corresponds to placing the following conditions on
      the incoming route update (compared to the existing route table
      entry) 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, the route table entry is populated with
   the following information:

   o  Route.Address := RteMsg.Addr

   o  If RteMsg.PrefixLength exists and is not INVALID_PREFIX_LENGTH,
      then Route.PrefixLength := RteMsg.PrefixLength

   o  Route.SeqNum := RteMsg.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.Broken flag := FALSE

   o  If RteMsg.MetricType is included, then
      Route.MetricType := RteMsg.MetricType.  Otherwise,
      Route.MetricType := DEFAULT_METRIC_TYPE.





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   o  Route.Metric := (RteMsg.Metric + Cost(L)), where L is the incoming
      link.

   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.Addr.  An updated route entry also fulfills any outstanding
   route discovery (RREQ) attempts for Route.Addr.

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)

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   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.  The main difference between the two messages is that
   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.  Optionally, RREQ_Gen MAY specify
   that only the router serving TargNode is allowed to generate an RREP
   message, by including the DestOnly message TLV (see Section 7.3).
   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
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   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
   Unreachable ICMP message (Type 3) SHOULD be delivered to the source
   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

   RteMsgs have the following general format:


       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |       RFC 5444 Message Header (optionally, with MsgTLVs)      |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |                AddrBlk := {OrigNode,TargNode}                 |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |      AddrBlk.PrefixLength[OrigNode OR TargNode] (Optional)    |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |              OrigSeqNumTLV AND/OR TargSeqNumTLV               |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |          MetricTLV {OrigNode, TargNode} (Optional)            |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |              Added Node Address Block (Optional)              |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |                 Added Node Address SeqNumTLV                  |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |           Added Node Address MetricTLV[MetricType]            |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+

            Figure 1: RREQ and RREP (RteMsg) message structure

   Required Message Header Fields
      The RteMsg MUST contain the following:

      *  <msg-hop-limit>

      *  Metric Type Message TLV, if MetricType != 3






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   Optional Message Header Fields
      The RteMsg may contain the following:

      *  <msg-hop-count>

      *  DestOnly TLV (RREQ only: no Intermediate RREP)

      *  MetricType TLV (Metric Type for Metric AddrTLV)

      *  AckReq TLV (Acknowledgement Requested)

   AddrBlk
      This 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 either OrigNode or TargNode.  Both may appear when SeqNum
      information is available for both OrigNode and TargNode.

   (Optional) Added Node AddrBlk
      AODVv2 allows the inclusion of routing information for other nodes
      in addition to OrigNode and TargNode.

   (Optional) SeqNum AddrTLV  If the Added Node AddrBlk is present, the
      SeqNum AddrTLV is REQUIRED, to carry the destination sequence
      numbers associated with the Added Nodes.

   (Optional) Metric AddrTLV  If the Added Node AddrBlk is present, this
      AddrTLV is REQUIRED, to carry the metric information associated
      with the Added Nodes.  See below.

   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,
   at least one of OrigSeqNumTLV or TargSeqNumTLV MUST appear.  Both
   TLVs MAY appear in the same RteMsg, but each one MUST NOT appear more
   than once, because there is only one OrigNode and only one TargNode
   address in the AddrBlk.

   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
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   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
   schematically in Figure 1.

   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.  If RREQ_Gen requires that only the router providing connectivity
       to TargNode is allowed to generate a RREP, then RREQ_Gen includes
       the "Destination RREP Only" (DestOnly) TLV as part of the RFC
       5444 message header.  This also assures that RREP_Gen increments
       its sequence number.  Otherwise, (if the optional behavior is
       enabled) other AODVv2 routers MAY respond to the RREQ if they
       have a valid route to TargNode (see Section 13.2).

   3.  <msg-hop-limit> SHOULD be set to MAX_HOPCOUNT.

   4.  <msg-hop-count>, if included, MUST be set to 0.

       *  This RFC 5444 constraint causes the typical RREQ payload to
          incur additional enlargement (otherwise, <msg-hop-count> could
          often be used as the metric).

   5.  RREQ.AddrBlk := {OrigNode.Addr, TargNode.Addr}

       Let OrigNodeNdx and TargNodeNdx denote the indexes of OrigNode
       and TargNode respectively in the RREQ.AddrBlk list.

   6.  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[OrigNodeNdx] := Route[OrigNode].PrefixLength
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   7.  RREQ.OrigSeqNumTLV[OrigNodeNdx] := RREQ_Gen SeqNum

   8.  RREQ.TargSeqNumTLV[TargNodeNdx] := TargNode 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 routing
       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.  If ENABLE_IRREP is
       enabled, then any route to TargNode will satisfy the RREQ
       [I-D.perkins-irrep].

   9.  RREQ.MetricTLV[1] := Route[OrigNode].Metric

   An example RREQ message format is illustrated in Appendix A.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
        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 OrigNodeNdx and TargNodeNdx denote the indexes of OrigNode
        and TargNode respectively in the RREQ.AddrBlk list.

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   5.   RREP.TargSeqNumTLV[TargNodeNdx] := RREP_Gen's SeqNum

   6.   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[TargNodeNdx] :=
        Route[TargNode].PrefixLength according to the rules of RFC 5444
        AddrBlk encoding.

   7.   RREP.MetricType[TargNodeNdx] := Route[TargNode].MetricType

   8.   RREP.Metric[TargNodeNdx] := Route[TargNode].Metric

   9.   <msg-hop-count>, if included, MUST be set to 0.

   10.  <msg-hop-limit> SHOULD be set to RREQ.<msg-hop-count>.

   11.  IP.DestinationAddr := Route[OrigNode].NextHop

   An example message format for RREP is illustrated in Appendix A.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.  OrigNodeNdx and TargNodeNdx are
   set according to the rules in Section 7.2.  For RREQ, RteMsg.Metric
   is MetricTLV[OrigNodeNdx].  For RREP, RteMsg.Metric is
   MetricTLV[TargNodeNdx].  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
       that the Metric Type associated with the Metric AddrTLV
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       computed, where 'L' is the incoming link.  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.  The router MAY process AddedNode routing information (if present)
       as specified in Section 13.7.1.  Otherwise, if AddedNode
       information is not processed, it MUST be deleted, because it may
       no longer be accurate as a route update to any upstream router.

   3.  If RteMsg.<msg-hop-limit> is zero (0), no further action is
       taken, and the RteMsg is not retransmitted.  Otherwise, the
       router MUST decrement RteMsg.<msg-hop-limit>.

   4.  If the RteMsg.<msg-hop-count> is present, and <msg-hop-count> ==
       MAX_HOPCOUNT, 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
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      *  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
      complete.

   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  RREQ.MetricType := Route[OrigNode].MetricType

   o  RREQ.MetricTLV[OrigNodeNdx] := 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 before, 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).  OrigNodeNdx and TargNodeNdx 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[TargNodeNdx].  Otherwise, if
      HandlingRtr is not RREQ_Gen then the outgoing RREP is sent to the
      Route.NextHopAddress for the RREP.AddrBlk[OrigNodeNdx].

   o  If HandlingRtr is RREQ_Gen then the RREP satisfies RREQ_Gen's
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      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 redundant RREQ messages.  This is done by
   checking the list of recently received RREQs to determine whether the
   incoming RREQ contains new information, as follows:

   o  The AODVv2 router searches the RREQ Table for recent entries with
      the same OrigNode, TargNode, and Metric Type.  If there is no such
      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.





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      If the route is marked has been marked as Broken, it cannot be
      used for forwarding.

      If Current_Time > Route.ExpirationTime, the route table entry has
      expired, and cannot be used for forwarding.

      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.

      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
   forwarded to the route's next hop.

   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

   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
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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)     |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+
       |             UnreachableNode SeqNum AddrBlk TLV                |
       +---------------------------------------------------------------+

                     Figure 2: RERR message structure

   Required Message Header Fields
      The RERR MUST contain the following:

      *  <msg-hop-limit>

      *  PktSource Message TLV (see Section 15), if the RERR is unicast

      *  Metric Type Message TLV (see Section 15), if MetricType != 3

   Optional Message Header Fields
      The RERR may contain the following:

      *  <msg-hop-count>

   UnreachableNode AddrBlk
      This Address Block contains the IP addresses unreachable by AODVv2
      router transmitting the RERR.

   Sequence Number AddrBlk TLV
      This Address Block TLV carries the destination sequence number
      associated with each UnreachableNode when that information is
      available.

   UnreachableNode.PrefixLength
      The prefix length associated with an UnreachableNode.

   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,
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   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 RREP.AddrBlk[OrigNode]).  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 flag those routes as
   broken, regardless of the Sequnce Number information for those
   routes.  RERR_Gen MUST discard the packet or message that triggered
   generation of the RERR.

   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_UNREACHABLE, as long as the packet size of the RERR does
   not exceed the MTU (interface "Maximum Transfer Unit") of the
   physical medium.

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   Otherwise, RERR_Gen generates a new RERR, and the address of each
   UnreachableNode is inserted into an AddrBlock.  If a prefix is known
   for the UnreachableNode.Address, it SHOULD be included.  Otherwise,
   the UnreachableNode.Address is assumed to be a host address with a
   full length prefix.  The value for each UnreachableNode's SeqNum
   (UnreachableNode.SeqNum) MUST be placed in a SeqNum AddrTLV.  If none
   of UnreachableNode.Addr entries are associated with known prefix
   lengths, then the AddrBlk SHOULD NOT include any prefix-length
   information.  Otherwise, for each UnreachableNode.Addr that does not
   have any associated prefix-length information, the prefix-length for
   that address MUST be assigned to INVALID_PREFIX_LENGTH, which is a
   length strictly greater than the length of any valid address.

   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 MetricType 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 the
   information in the RERR may be relevant to upstream neighbors using
   those routes, HandlingRtr subsequently sends another RERR to those
   neighbors.  This operation has the effect of retransmitting 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
   <msg-hop-limit> and at least one UnreachableNode.Address.  If the
   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 <=
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   If the route satisfies all of the above conditions, HandlingRtr sets
   the Route.Broken flag for that route.  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.

   o  Otherwise, the outgoing RERR MUST be sent to LL-MANET-Routers.


9.  Unknown Message and TLV Types

   If a message with an unknown type is received, the message is
   disregarded.

   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
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       /-------------------------\
      / +----------------+        \
     /  |  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
   that destination.


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.Address can be reached is also recorded in
   the route table entry.

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

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




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12.  AODVv2 Control Packet/Message Generation Limits

   To avoid messaging overload, 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.

   o  Inclusion of Added Routing Information.

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
   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].




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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 active sources of traffic 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
   downstream 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 downstream along 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
   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:



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   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
   RREP was received, there is no need for any additional RFC 5444
   address information (or TLVs).  Considerations of packet TTL are as
   specified in Section 5.4.  An example message format is illustrated
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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].

13.7.  Added Routing Information in RteMsgs

   DSR [RFC4728] includes source routes as part of the data of its RREPs
   and RREQs.  Doing so allows additional topology information to be
   multicast along with the RteMsg, and potentially allows updating for
   stale routing information at MANET routers along new paths between
   source and destination.  To maintain this functionality, AODVv2 has
   defined a somewhat more general method that enables inclusion of
   source routes in RteMsgs.

   Including additional routing information in outgoing RREQ or RREP
   messages can eliminate some route discovery attempts to the nodes
   whose information is included, if AODVv2 routers receiving the
   information use it to update their routing tables.

   Note that, since the initial merger of DSR with AODV to create this
   protocol, further experimentation has shown that including the
   additional routing information is not always helpful.  Sometimes it
   seems to help, and other times it seems to reduce overall
   performance.  The results depend upon packet size and traffic
   patterns.

13.7.1.  Including Added Node Information

   An AODVv2 router (HandlingRtr) MAY optionally append AddedNode
   routing information to a RREQ or RREP.  This is controllable by an
   option (APPEND_INFORMATION) which SHOULD be administratively
   configurable or controlled according to the traffic characteristics
   of the network.

   The following notation is used to specify the methods for inclusion
   of routing information for addtional nodes.

   AddedNode
      The IP address of an additional node that can be reached via the
      AODVv2 router adding this information.  Each AddedNode.Address
      MUST include its prefix.  Each AddedNode.Address MUST also have an
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   AddedNode.SeqNum
      The Sequence Number associated with the AddedNode's routing
      information.

   AddedNode.Metric
      The cost of the route needed to reach the associated
      AddedNode.Address.  This field is increased by Cost(L) at each
      intermediate AODVv2 router, where 'L' is the incoming link.  If,
      for the Metric Type of the AddrBlk, it is not known how to compute
      Cost(L), the AddedNode.Addr information MUST be deleted from the
      AddedNode AddrBlk.

   The VALIDITY_TIME of routing information for appended address(es)
   MUST be included, to inform routers about when to expire this
   information.  A typical value for VALIDITY_TIME is (ACTIVE_INTERVAL+
   MAX_IDLETIME) - (Current_Time - Route.LastUsed) but other values
   (less than MAX_SEQNUM_TIME) MAY be chosen.  The VALIDITY_TIME TLV is
   defined in [RFC5497].

   SeqNum and Metric AddrTLVs about any appended address(es) MUST be
   included.

   Routing information about the TargNode MUST NOT be added to the
   AddedAddrBlk.  Also, duplicate address entries SHOULD NOT be added.
   Only the best routing information (Section 6.1) for a particular
   address SHOULD be included; if route information is included for a
   destination address already in the AddedAddrBlk, the previous
   information SHOULD NOT be included in the RteMsg.

13.7.2.  Handling Added Node Information

   An intermediate node (i.e., HandlingRtr) obeys the following
   procedures when processing AddedNode.Address information and other
   associated TLVs that are included with a RteMsg.  For each AddedNode
   (except the TargetNode) in the RteMsg, the AddedNode.Metric
   information MUST be increased by Cost(L), where 'L' is the incoming
   link.  If, for the Metric Type of the AddrBlk, it is not known how to
   compute Cost(L), the AddedNode.Addr information MUST be deleted from
   the AddedNode AddrBlk.  If the resulting Cost of the route to the
   AddedNode is greater than MAX_METRIC[i], the AddedNode information is
   discarded.  If the resulting Distance value for another node is
   greater than MAX_METRIC[i], the associated address and its
   information are removed from the RteMsg.

   After handling the OrigNode's routing information, then each address
   that is not the TargetNode MAY be considered for creating and
   updating routes.  Creating and updating routes to other nodes can
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   needs to be forwarded to the IP destination(s) now or in the near
   future.

   For each of the additional addresses considered, HandlingRtr first
   checks that the address is a routable unicast address.  If the
   address is not a unicast address, then the address and all related
   information MUST be removed.

   If the routing table does not have a matching route with a known
   Route.SeqNum for this additional address using longest-prefix
   matching, then a route MAY be created and updated as described in
   Section 6.2.  If a route table entry exists with a known
   Route.SeqNum, the incoming routing information is compared with the
   route table entry following the procedure described in Section 6.1.
   If the incoming routing information is used, the route table entry
   SHOULD be updated as described in Section 6.2.

   If the routing information for an AddedNode.Address is not used, then
   it is removed from the RteMsg.

   If route information is included for a destination address already in
   the AddedAddrBlk, the previous information SHOULD NOT be included in
   the RteMsg.


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
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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:

             +------------------------------+---------------+
             |             Name             | Default Value |
             +------------------------------+---------------+
             |        ACTIVE_INTERVAL       | 5 second      |
             |         MAX_IDLETIME         | 200 seconds   |
             |      MAX_BLACKLIST_TIME      | 200 seconds   |
             |      MAX_SEQNUM_LIFETIME     | 300 seconds   |
             |     ROUTE_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          |
   | INVALID_PREFIX_LENGTH  | 255               | Section 8.3.2        |
   | MAX_HOPCOUNT           | 20 hops           | Section 5.6          |
   | MAX_METRIC[i]          | Specified only    | Section 5.6          |
   |                        | for HopCount      |                      |
   | MAXTIME                | [TBD]             | Maximum expressible  |
   |                        |                   | clock time           |
   +------------------------+-------------------+----------------------+




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                         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
   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                   |
        +-------------------------+-------------------------------+
        |    APPEND_INFORMATION   | Section 13.7.1                |
        |   DEFAULT_METRIC_TYPE   | 3 {Hop Count (see [RFC6551])} |
        | ENABLE_IDLE_UNREACHABLE | 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.





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15.1.  AODVv2 Message Types Specification

          +----------------------------------------+------------+
          |                  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 |
   | Destination RREP Only (DestOnly)  |   11  |    0    | Section 7.3 |
   | Packet Source (PktSource)         |   12  | 4 or 16 | Section 8.3 |
   | Metric Type                       |   13  |    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       |   13   | 2 octets      | Section 7.2 |
   | Number (TargSeqNum)        |        |               |             |
   | VALIDITY_TIME              |    1   | 1 octet       | [RFC5497]   |
   +----------------------------+--------+---------------+-------------+

                Table 8: Address Block TLV (AddrTLV) Types






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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
   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 RteMsgs and negative routing information (i.e. a
   route does not exist) via RERRs.  AODVv2 routers that handle these
   messages store the contained information 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
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   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,
   cryptographic techniques can be applied.

   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
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   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, which is proper for
   these message types that may have mutable fields.  For destination-
   only RREP discovery procedures, AODVv2 routers that share a security
   association SHOULD use the appropriate mechanisms as specified in RFC
   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 Luke Klein-
   Berndt, Pedro Ruiz, Fransisco Ros, Henning Rogge, Koojana
   Kuladinithi, Ramon Caceres, Thomas Clausen, Christopher Dearlove,
   Seung Yi, Romain Thouvenin, Tronje Krop, Henner Jakob, Alexandru
   Petrescu, Christoph Sommer, Cong Yuan, Lars Kristensen, and Derek
   Atkins for reviewing of AODVv2, as well as several specification
   suggestions.

   This revision of AODVv2 separates the minimal base specification from
   other optional features to expedite the process of assuring
   compatibility with the existing LOADng specification
   [I-D.clausen-lln-loadng] (minimal reactive routing protocol
   specification).  Thanks are due to T. Clausen, A. Colin de Verdiere,
   J. Yi, A. Niktash, Y. Igarashi, Satoh.  H., and U. Herberg for their
   development of LOADng and sharing details for assuring
   appropriateness of AODVv2 for their application.


18.  References

18.1.  Normative References

   [RFC1812]  Baker, F., "Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers",
              RFC 1812, June 1995.

   [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.




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   [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.

18.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.clausen-lln-loadng]
              Clausen, T., Verdiere, A., Yi, J., Niktash, A., Igarashi,
              Y., Satoh, H., Herberg, U., Lavenu, C., Lys, T., Perkins,
              C., and J. Dean, "The Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc
              Distance-vector Routing Protocol - Next Generation
              (LOADng)", draft-clausen-lln-loadng-08 (work in progress),
              January 2013.

   [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.

   [Perkins99]
              Perkins, C. and E. Belding-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.

   [RFC2328]  Moy, J., "OSPF Version 2", STD 54, RFC 2328, April 1998.

   [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.



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   [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.

   [RFC5340]  Coltun, R., Ferguson, D., Moy, J., and A. Lindem, "OSPF
              for IPv6", RFC 5340, July 2008.

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

   [RFC6549]  Lindem, A., Roy, A., and S. Mirtorabi, "OSPFv2 Multi-
              Instance Extensions", RFC 6549, March 2012.

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


Appendix A.  Example RFC 5444-compliant packet formats

   The following three subsections show example RFC 5444-compliant
   packets for AODVv2 message types RREQ, RREP, and RERR.  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
   Seqnum and of type Metric.

   In addition to the Seqnum TLV, there MUST be an AddrTLV of type
   Metric.  The msg-hop-count counts the number of hops followed by the
   RteMsg from point of generation to the current intermediate AODVv2
   router handling the RteMsg.  Alternate metrics are enabled by the
   inclusion of the MetricType Message TLV.  When there is no such
   MetricType Message TLV present, then the Metric AddrTLV measures
   HopCount.  The Metric AddrTLV also provides a way for the AODV router
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   route to its client node (OrigNode or TargNode, for RREQ or RREP
   respectively).

   AddedNode information MAY be included in a RteMsg by adding a second
   AddrBlk.  Both Metric AddrTLVs use the same Metric Type.

   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].

A.1.  RREQ Message Format

   Figure 4 illustrates a packet format for an example RREQ 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
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | PV=0 |  PF=0  | msg-type=RREQ | MF=4  | MAL=3 |  msg-size=28  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |  msg-size=28  | msg-hop-limit |      msg.tlvs-length=0        |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |   num-addr=2  |1|0|0|0|0| Rsv | head-length=3 |Head(Orig&Targ)|
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | Head (bytes for Orig & Target)|   Orig.Tail   |  Target.Tail  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |      addr.tlvs-length=11      |  type=SeqNum  |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 4: Example IPv4 RREQ, with SeqNum and Metric AddrTLVs
















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   The fields in Figure 4 are to be interpreted as follows:
   o  PV=0 (Packet Header Version = 0)
   o  PF=0 (Packet Flags = 0)
   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.tlvs-length=11 (length in bytes for SeqNum and Metric TLVs
   o  type=SeqNum (AddrTLV type of first AddrBlk TLV, values 2 octets)
   o  AddrTLV flags for SeqNumTLV:
      *  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 (SeqNum TLV values start at index 0)
   o  tlv-length=2 (so there is only one TLV value, [1 = 2/2])
   o  Orig.Node Sequence # (first [and only] TLV value for SeqNum TLVs
   o  type=Metric (AddrTLV type of second AddrBlk TLV, values 1 octet)
   o  AddrTLV flags for MetricTLV:
      *  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])
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A.2.  RREP Message Format

   Figure 5 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
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | PV=0 |  PF=0  | msg-type=RREP | MF=4  | MAL=3 |  msg-size=30  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |  msg-size=30  | msg-hop-limit |      msg.tlvs-length=0        |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |   num-addr=2  |1|0|0|0|0| Rsv | head-length=3 |Head(Orig&Targ)|
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | Head (bytes for Orig & Target)|   Orig.Tail   |  Target.Tail  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |      addr.tlvs-length=13      |  type=SeqNum  |0|1|0|1|0|0|Rsv|
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | Index-start=0 | tlv-length=2  |     Orig.Node Sequence #      |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |    Target.Node Sequence #     |  type=Metric  |0|1|0|1|0|0|Rsv|
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | Index-start=1 | tlv-length=1  | TargNodeHopCt |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

         Figure 5: Example IPv4 RREP, with 2 SeqNums and 1 Metric


























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   The fields in Figure 5 are to be interpreted as follows:
   o  PV=0 (Packet Header Version = 0)
   o  PF=0 (Packet Flags = 0)
   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.tlvs-length=13 (length in bytes for SeqNum and Metric TLVs
   o  type=SeqNum (AddrTLV type of first AddrBlk TLV, values 2 octets)
   o  AddrTLV flags for SeqNumTLV:
      *  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 (SeqNum TLV values start at index 0)
   o  tlv-length=4 (so there is are two TLV values, [2 = 4/2])
   o  Orig.Node Sequence # (first of two TLV values for SeqNum TLVs
   o  Targ.Node Sequence # (second of two TLV values for SeqNum TLVs
   o  type=Metric (AddrTLV type of second AddrBlk TLV, values 1 octet)
   o  AddrTLV flags for MetricTLV [01010000, same as for SeqNumTLV]
   o  Index-start=1 (Metric TLV values start at index 1)
   o  tlv-length=1 (so there is only one TLV value, [1 = 1/1])
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A.3.  RERR Message Format

   Figure 6 illustrates a packet format for an example RERR 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
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | PV=0 |  PF=0  | msg-type=RERR | MF=4  | MAL=3 |  msg-size=24  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |  msg-size=24  | msg-hop-limit |      msg.tlvs-length=0        |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |   num-addr=2  |1|0|0|0|0| Rsv | head-length=3 | Head (3 bytes)|
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | Head (for both destinations)  |  Tail(Dest_1) | Tail(Dest_2)  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |      addr.tlvs-length=7       |  type=SeqNum  |0|0|1|1|0|1|Rsv|
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | tlv-length=4  |        Dest_1 Sequence #      |  Dest_2 Seq#  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |  Dest_2 Seq#  |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

          Figure 6: Example IPv4 RERR with Two Unreachable Nodes

   The fields in Figure 6 are to be interpreted as follows:
   o  PV=0 (Packet Header Version = 0)
   o  PF=0 (Packet Flags = 0)
   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.tlvs-length=7 (length in bytes for SeqNum TLV
   o  type=SeqNum (AddrTLV type of AddrBlk TLV, values 2 octets each)
   o  AddrTLV flags for SeqNumTLV:
      *  bit 0 (thastypeext): 0
      *  bit 1 (thassingleindex): 0
      *  bit 2 (thasmultiindex): 1





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      *  bit 3 (thasvalue): 1
      *  bit 4 (thasextlen): 0
      *  bit 5 (tismultivalue): 1
      *  bits 6-7: RESERVED
   o  Index-start=0 (SeqNum TLV values start at index 0)
   o  tlv-length=4 (so there is are two TLV values, [2 = 4/2])
   o  Dest_1 Sequence # (first of two TLV values for SeqNum TLVs)
   o  Dest_2 Sequence # (second of two TLV values for SeqNum TLVs)

A.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
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | PV=0 |  PF=0  |msgtype=RREPAck| MF=0  | MAL=3 |  msg-size=4   |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |  msg-size=4   |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                      Figure 7: Example IPv4 RREP_ACK


Appendix B.  Changes since revision ...-25.txt

   The main goals of this revision are to improve readability and to
   introduce a protocol update which enables order-independent listing
   of the Originating Node and Target Node (OrigNode and TargNode) in
   the AddrBlk of RREQ and RREP messages.
   o  Added two new AddrTLV types, OrigSeqNum and TargSeqNum.  Changed
      processing description to identify OrigNdx and TargNdx, instead of
      implicitly assuming OrigNdx = 1 and TargNdx = 2 as in previous
      versions of the specification.  See Section 7.2, Section 7.3,
      Section 7.4, Section 7.5, and Section 15.3.
   o  Reworded initial paragraph of Section 6 to eliminate the use of
      terminology "DestIP", in order to reduce possible confusion with
      the meaning of the term "TargNode", etc.
   o  Moved description of reasons why a node might not elect to
      retransmit a RteMsg from Section 7.5 to section Section 7.5.1.  If
      an AODVv2 router would elect to not send an RREP message, it
      should not send the RREQ message which might elicit that RREP
      message.  Otherwise, valid routes will go undiscovered.
   o  Eliminated use of terminology for "Msg." to indicate fields in the
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   o  Replaced instances of "useless" by "redundant".  Made numerous
      other editorial changes and corrections.
   o  Changed membership of editorial team.
   o  Formally changed document name to "aodvv2" instead of "dymo".


Appendix C.  Changes since revision ...-24.txt

   The main goals of this revision are to improve readability and to
   introduce a protocol update to handle suppression of unnecessary
   multicast RREQs and certain other messages.
   o  Specified operations for maintenance and use of RREQ Table (see
      Section 5.7, Section 7.6).
   o  Inserted explanations for example packet formats in appendix (see
      Appendix A).
   o  Eliminated OwnSeqNum, RERR_dest, and various other abbreviations,
      reworded relevant text.
   o  Reorganized Section 14 into four sections so that the various
      parameters are grouped more naturally into tables of similar
      types.
   o  Replaced parameter descriptions in the tables in Section 14, with
      cross references to the parameter descriptions in the body of the
      specification.
   o  Created parameters and administrative controls ENABLE_IRREP and
      MAX_BLACKLIST_TIME which had been alluded to in the body of the
      specification.
   o  Corrected metric comparison formulae to include cost of incoming
      link.
   o  Renamed Unicast Response Request MsgTLV to be Acknowledgment
      Request.
   o  Clarified <msg-hop-limit> and <msg-hop-count> mandates and
      initialization.
   o  Reformatted various tables to improve readability.
   o  Changed some descriptions to apply to "Incoming" messages instead
      of "Outgoing" messages, enabling simpler specification.
   o  Many other minor editorial improvements to improve readability and
      eliminate possibly ambiguities.


Appendix D.  Changes between revisions ...-21.txt and ...-24.txt

   The revisions of this document that were numbered 22 and 23 were
   produced without sufficient time for preparation, and suffered from
   numerous editorial errors.  Therefore, this list of changes is
   enumerated based on differences between this revision (24) and
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   o  Alternate metrics enabled:
      *  New section added to describe general design approach.
      *  Abstract functions "Cost()" and "LoopFree()" defined.
      *  MAX_HOPCOUNT typically replaced by MAX_METRIC.
      *  DEFAULT_METRIC_TYPE parameter defined, defaulting to HopCount.
      *  MetricType Message TLV defined.
      *  Metric Address TLV defined.
   o  Many changes for RFC 5444 compliance
   o  New section added for "Notational Conventions" (see Table 1).
      Many changes to improve readability and accuracy (e.g., eliminate
      use of "Flooding", "ThisNode", ...).
   o  Reorganized and simplified route lifetime management (see
      Section 5.1).
   o  Reorganized document structure, combining closely related small
      sections and eliminating top-level "Detailed ..." section.
      *  RREQ and RREP specification sections coalesced.
      *  RERR specification sections coalesced.
      *  Eliminated resulting duplicated specification.
      *  New section added for "Notational Conventions".
   o  Internet-Facing AODVv2 router renamed to be IAR
   o  "Optional Features" section (see Section 13) created to contain
      features not required within base specification, including:
      *  Adding RREP-ACK message type instead of relying on reception of
         arbitrary packets as sufficient response to establish
         bidirectionality.
      *  Expanding Rings Multicast
      *  Intermediate RREPs (iRREPs): Without iRREP, only the
         destination can respond to a RREQ.
      *  Precursor lists.
      *  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.
      *  Message Aggregation.
      *  Inclusion of Added Routing Information.
   o  Sequence number MUST be incremented after generating any RteMsg.
   o  Resulting simplifications for accepting route updates in RteMsgs.
   o  Sequence number MUST (instead of SHOULD) be set to 1 after
      rollover.
   o  AODVv2 routers MUST (instead of SHOULD) only handle AODVv2
      messages from adjacent routers.
   o  Clarification that Added Routing information in RteMsgs is
      optional (MAY) to use.
   o  Clarification that if Added Routing information in RteMsgs is
      used, then the Route Table Entry SHOULD be updated using normal
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   o  Clarification in Section 7.1 that nodes may be configured to
      buffer zero packets.
   o  Clarification in Section 7.1 that buffered packets MUST be dropped
      if route discovery fails.
   o  In Section 8.2, relax mandate for monitoring connectivity to next-
      hop AODVv2 neighbors (from MUST to SHOULD), in order to allow for
      minimal implementations
   o  Remove Route.Forwarding flag; identical to "NOT" Route.Broken.
   o  Routing Messages MUST be originated with the <msg-hop-limit> set
      to MAX_HOPCOUNT.
   o  Maximum hop count set to MAX_HOPCOUNT, and 255 is reserved for
      "unknown".  Since the current draft only uses hop-count as
      distance, this is also the current maximum distance.


Appendix E.  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

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

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












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

   Email: sratliff@cisco.com


   John Dowdell
   Cassidian
   Celtic Springs
   Newport, Wales  NP10 8FZ
   United Kingdom

   Email: John.Dowdell@Cassidian.com



































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