Network Working Group                                         T. Clausen
Internet-Draft                                                A. Camacho
Intended status: Informational                                     J. Yi
Expires: April 25, 2013                             A. Colin de Verdiere
                                                LIX, Ecole Polytechnique
                                                             Y. Igarashi
                                                                H. Satoh
                                                                Y. Morii
                                        Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research
                                                              Laboratory
                                                              U. Herberg
                                         Fujitsu Laboratories of America
                                                               C. Lavenu
                                                                 EDF R&D
                                                        October 22, 2012


 Interoperability Report of the Lightweight On-demand Ad hoc Distance-
           vector Routing Protocol - Next Generation (LOADng)
           draft-lavenu-lln-loadng-interoperability-report-03

Abstract

   This document reports experience with the LOADng routing protocol, as
   obtained by way of a number of interoperability tests during the
   protocol development.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   3.  Interoperability Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     3.1.  Scenario 01: 1-hop Bidirectional Route Establishment -
           Forward Route and Reverse Route initial installation . . .  6
       3.1.1.  Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       3.1.2.  Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     3.2.  Scenario 02: 1-hop Bidirectional Route Establishment
           -Forward Route and Reverse Route updating  . . . . . . . .  7
       3.2.1.  Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       3.2.2.  Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     3.3.  Scenario 03: 2-hop bidirectional route establishment -
           Forward Route and Reverse Route initial installation . . .  8
       3.3.1.  Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
       3.3.2.  Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     3.4.  Scenario 04: 2-hop bidirectional route establishment -
           Forward Route and Reverse Route updating . . . . . . . . . 10
       3.4.1.  Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       3.4.2.  Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     3.5.  Scenario 05: 2-hop bidirectional route establishment -
           Link breakage handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       3.5.1.  Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       3.5.2.  Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     3.6.  Scenario 06: 3-hop bidirectional route establishment -



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           Forward Route and Reverse Route initial installation . . . 12
       3.6.1.  Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       3.6.2.  Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     3.7.  Scenario 07: 3-hop bidirectional route establishment -
           Forward Route and Reverse Route updating . . . . . . . . . 14
       3.7.1.  Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
       3.7.2.  Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     3.8.  Scenario 08: 3-hop bidirectional route establishment -
           Link breakage handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
       3.8.1.  Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
       3.8.2.  Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     3.9.  Scenario 09: 4-hop bidirectional route establishment -
           Forward Route and Reverse Route initial installation . . . 17
       3.9.1.  Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
       3.9.2.  Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
     3.10. Scenario 10: 4-hop bidirectional route establishment -
           Link breakage handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
       3.10.1. Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
       3.10.2. Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
     3.11. Scenario 11: Establishment of the best bidirectional
           route  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
       3.11.1. Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
       3.11.2. Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
     3.12. Scenario 12: Blacklisting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
       3.12.1. Scenario Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
       3.12.2. Expected Message Sequencing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
   4.  Interop 01: Yokohama, Japan, October 2011  . . . . . . . . . . 27
     4.1.  Version of LOADng Specification Tested . . . . . . . . . . 27
     4.2.  Place and Date of Interoperability Test  . . . . . . . . . 28
     4.3.  Participating Implementations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
     4.4.  Scenarios Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
     4.5.  Additional Interoperability Test Considerations  . . . . . 28
     4.6.  Results For Scenario 01  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
     4.7.  Results For Scenario 02  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
     4.8.  Results For Scenario 03  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
     4.9.  Results For Scenario 04  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
     4.10. Results For Scenario 05  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
     4.11. Results For Scenario 06  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
     4.12. Results For Scenario 07  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
     4.13. Results For Scenario 08  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
     4.14. Results For Scenario 09  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
     4.15. Results For Scenario 10  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
     4.16. Results For Scenario 11  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
     4.17. Results For Scenario 12  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
     4.18. Conclusions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
   5.  Interop 02: San Jose, USA March 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
     5.1.  LOADng version tested  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
     5.2.  Place and Date of Interoperability Test  . . . . . . . . . 35



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     5.3.  Participating Implementations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
     5.4.  Interoperability Test Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . 36
     5.5.  Results For Scenario 01  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
     5.6.  Results For Scenrio 03 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
     5.7.  Results For Scenario 05  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
   6.  Interop 03: Los Angeles, USA, June 2012  . . . . . . . . . . . 37
     6.1.  Version of LOADng Specification Tested . . . . . . . . . . 37
     6.2.  Place and Date of Interoperability Test  . . . . . . . . . 37
     6.3.  Participating Implementations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
     6.4.  Scenarios Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
     6.5.  Additional Interoperability Test Considerations  . . . . . 37
     6.6.  Results For Scenario 01-02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
     6.7.  Results For Scenario 03-04-05  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
     6.8.  Results For Scenario 06-07-08  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
     6.9.  Results For Scenario 09-10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
     6.10. Results For Scenario 11  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
     6.11. Conclusions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
   7.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
   8.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
   9.  Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
   10. Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
   11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
     11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
     11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42



























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1.  Introduction

   This document reports experience with the LOADng [LOADng] routing
   protocol, as obtained by way of a number of interoperability tests
   during the protocol development.

   Interoperability tests between LOADng Routers implemented on the
   basis of the different versions of the protocol have been undertaken
   mainly to:

   o  Show evidence that interoperable LOADng implementations do exist.

   o  Clarify and improve the overall quality of the LOADng
      specification.

   o  Demonstrate that the final LOADng internet draft can be considered
      as a standalone specification allowing the development of
      interoperable implementations of LOADng.

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].

   Additionally, this document uses the following terminology:

   LOADng Router -  A router which implements this routing protocol.

   Destination -  The address of a router or host, to which a route is
      sought discovered and maintained.

   Originator -  The address of a router, which seeks to discover and
      maintain a route to a Destination.

   Forward Route -  A route set up so as to send data packets from the
      Originator to the Destination.  The Forward Route is set up when a
      LOADng Router forwards Route Reply (RREP) messages.

   Reverse Route -  A route set up so as to send data packets from the
      Destination to the Originator.  The Reverse Route is set up when a
      LOADng Router forwards Route Request (RREQ) messages.  It is used
      for forwarding RREP messages, as well as for forwarding data
      packets.






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   Route Cost -  The sum of the Link Costs for the links that a RREQ or
      RREP has crossed.

   Weak Link -  A link which is marginally usable, i.e., MAY be used if
      no other links are available, but SHOULD be avoided if at all
      possible - even if it entails an ultimately longer path.  As an
      example, a Weak Link might be defined as a link with a significant
      loss-rate.

3.  Interoperability Scenarios

   This section describes the various tests and scenarios carried out
   between the implementations involved in the various interoperability
   tests.

   The testbed required is composed of up to five LOADng Routers,
   connected according to the specific topology described for each test
   scenario below.  The LOADng routing protocol was run over UDP and
   IPv4.  Either Ethernet or 802.11 wireless network was used in the
   test.

3.1.  Scenario 01: 1-hop Bidirectional Route Establishment - Forward
      Route and Reverse Route initial installation

   For each implementation, this test aims to verify the initial
   installation of a bidirectional route (Forward Route and Reverse
   Route from A to B) within the LOADng Router routing tables (Routing
   Sets) through the effective generation and processing of LOADng
   control messages (RREQ, RREP, RREP-ACK).

3.1.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of two LOADng Routers:

                         +-------+        +-------+
                         |   A   |________|   B   |
                         |       |        |       |
                         +-------+        +-------+

   This test suite consists in establishing a bidirectional route
   between LOADng Router A and LOADng Router B.

3.1.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

   The expected message sequencing is as follows:

   o  LOADng Router A generates an RREQ message intended for LOADng
      Router B.



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   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router B installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router B to LOADng Router A) and sends an unicast RREP message
      intended for LOADng Router A, soliciting an RREP-ACK message.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router A installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router B (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router A to LOADng Router B) and sends an unicast RREP-ACK message
      to LOADng Router B.


                           A                   B
                           |     RREQ          |
                           -------------------->
                           |     RREP          |
                           <--------------------
                           |     RREP-ACK      |
                           -------------------->
                           |                   |

3.2.  Scenario 02: 1-hop Bidirectional Route Establishment -Forward
      Route and Reverse Route updating

   For each implementation, this test aims to verify the refreshment of
   a bidirectional route (Forward Route and Reverse Route from A to B)
   already installed within the LOADng Router routing tables (Routing
   Sets) through the effective generation and processing of LOADng
   control messages (RREQ, RREP, RREP-ACK).

3.2.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of two LOADng Routers:

                         +-------+        +-------+
                         |   A   |________|   B   |
                         |       |        |       |
                         +-------+        +-------+

   This test suite consists in updating a bidirectional route between
   LOADng Router A and LOADng Router B.

3.2.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

   The expected message sequencing is as follows:

   o  LOADng Router A generates an RREQ message intended for LOADng
      Router B.




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   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router B updates the corresponding
      route (Reverse Route from LOADng Router B to LOADng Router A)
      already installed within its Routing Set and sends an unicast RREP
      message intended for LOADng Router A, soliciting an RREP-ACK
      message.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router A updates the corresponding
      route (Forward Route from LOADng Router A to LOADng Router B)
      already installed within its Routing Set and sends an unicast
      RREP-ACK message to LOADng Router B.


                           A                   B
                           |     RREQ          |
                           -------------------->
                           |     RREP          |
                           <--------------------
                           |     RREP-ACK      |
                           -------------------->
                           |                   |

3.3.  Scenario 03: 2-hop bidirectional route establishment - Forward
      Route and Reverse Route initial installation

   This test aims to verify the initial installation of a bidirectional
   route (Forward Route and Reverse Route from A to C) within the LOADng
   Router routing tables (Routing Sets) through the effective forwarding
   of LOADng control traffic by LOADng Router B which is located between
   LOADng Router A and LOADng Router C. It is also verified that RREP-
   ACK messages are not forwarded by the LOADng Routers these messages
   are intended for.

3.3.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of three LOADng Routers.  Control traffic
   generated by either LOADng Router A towards LOADng Router C or LOADng
   Router C towards LOADng Router A has to be forwarded by LOADng Router
   B:

                +-------+        +-------+        +-------+
                |   A   |________|   B   |________|   C   |
                |       |        |       |        |       |
                +-------+        +-------+        +-------+

   This test suite consists in establishing a bidirectional route
   between LOADng Router A and LOADng Router C.





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3.3.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

   The expected message sequencing is as follows:

   o  LOADng Router A generates an RREQ message intended for LOADng
      Router C.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router B installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router B to LOADng Router A) and forwards the received RREQ.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router C installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router C to LOADng Router A) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      B (Reverse route from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router B).  The
      reception of the RREQ also triggers the generation of an unicast
      RREP message intended for LOADng Router A, soliciting an RREP-ACK
      message.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router B installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router C (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router B to LOADng Router C), sends an unicast RREP-ACK message to
      LOADng Router C and forwards the RREP received previously.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router A installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router B (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router A to LOADng Router B) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      C (Forward Route from LOADng Router A to LOADng Router C).  The
      reception of the RREP also triggers an unicast RREP-ACK message
      intended for LOADng Router B.


                 A                   B                   C
                 |     RREQ          |                   |
                 -------------------->                   |
                 |                   |     RREQ          |
                 |                   -------------------->
                 |                   |     RREP          |
                 |                   <--------------------
                 |                   |     RREP-ACK      |
                 |                   -------------------->
                 |     RREP          |                   |
                 <--------------------                   |
                 |     RREP-ACK      |                   |
                 -------------------->                   |
                 |                   |                   |





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3.4.  Scenario 04: 2-hop bidirectional route establishment - Forward
      Route and Reverse Route updating

   This test aims to verify the refreshment of a bidirectional route
   (Forward Route and Reverse Route from A to C) already installed
   within the LOADng Router routing tables (Routing Sets) through the
   effective forwarding of LOADng control traffic by LOADng Router B
   which is located between LOADng Router A and LOADng Router C.

3.4.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of three LOADng Routers.  Control traffic
   generated by either LOADng Router A towards LOADng Router C or LOADng
   Router C towards LOADng Router A has to be forwarded by LOADng Router
   B:

                +-------+        +-------+        +-------+
                |   A   |________|   B   |________|   C   |
                |       |        |       |        |       |
                +-------+        +-------+        +-------+

   This test suite consists in updating a bidirectional route between
   LOADng Router A and LOADng Router C.

3.4.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

   The expected message sequencing is as follows:

   o  LOADng Router A generates an RREQ message intended for LOADng
      Router C.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router B updates the corresponding
      route (Reverse Route from LOADng Router B to LOADng Router A)
      already installed within its Routing Set and forwards the received
      RREQ.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router C updates the corresponding
      routes (Reverse Routes from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router A and
      from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router B).  The reception of the
      RREQ also triggers the generation of an unicast RREP message
      intended for LOADng Router A, soliciting an RREP-ACK message.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router B updates the corresponding
      route (Forward route from LOADng Router B to LOADng Router C),
      sends an unicast RREP-ACK message to LOADng Router C and forwards
      the RREP received previously.





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   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router A updates the corresponding
      routes (Forward routes from LOADng Router A to LOADng Router B and
      from LOADng Router A to LOADng Router C).  The reception of the
      RREP also triggers an unicast RREP-ACK message intended for LOADng
      Router B.


                 A                   B                   C
                 |     RREQ          |                   |
                 -------------------->                   |
                 |                   |     RREQ          |
                 |                   -------------------->
                 |                   |     RREP          |
                 |                   <--------------------
                 |                   |     RREP-ACK      |
                 |                   -------------------->
                 |     RREP          |                   |
                 <--------------------                   |
                 |     RREP-ACK      |                   |
                 -------------------->                   |
                 |                   |                   |


3.5.  Scenario 05: 2-hop bidirectional route establishment - Link
      breakage handling

   This test aims to verify the proper generation and processing of an
   RERR message after an artificially created link breakage on an
   previously established bidirectional route.

3.5.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of three LOADng Routers.  Control traffic
   generated by either LOADng Router A towards LOADng Router C or LOADng
   Router C towards LOADng Router A has to be forwarded by LOADng Router
   B:

                +-------+        +-------+        +-------+
                |   A   |________|   B   |________|   C   |
                |       |        |       |        |       |
                +-------+        +-------+        +-------+

   This test suite consists in handling link breakages between routers.

3.5.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

   The expected message sequencing is as follows:




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   o  A bidirectional route is already established between LOADng
      Routers A and C.

   o  At some time, link breakage is detected by LOADng Router B.
      Consequently, an unicast RERR message intended for LOADng Router A
      (here the assumption is made that the unsuccessful delivered data
      traffic would have been generated by LOADng Router A) is
      transmitted.

      Note: link breakage is provoked artificially and its detection by
      LOADng Router B is triggered manually (normally, this would be
      triggered by failure in sending data traffic intended for LOADng
      Router C).

   o  Upon receiving the RERR, LOADng Router A updates its Routing Set
      by invalidating the existing Forward Route from LOADng Router A to
      LOADng Router C.


                 A                   B                   C
                 |                   |                   |
                 |                   | B-C link breakage |
                 |                   |                   X
                 |     RERR          |                   X
                 <--------------------                   X
                 |                   |                   X


3.6.  Scenario 06: 3-hop bidirectional route establishment - Forward
      Route and Reverse Route initial installation

   This test aims to verify the initial installation of a bidirectional
   route (Forward Route and Reverse Route from A to D) within the LOADng
   Router routing tables (Routing Sets) through the effective forwarding
   of LOADng control traffic by LOADng Routers B and C, which are
   located between LOADng Router A and LOADng Router D. It is also
   verified that RREP-ACK messages are not forwarded by the LOADng
   Routers these messages are intended for.

3.6.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of four LOADng Routers.  Control traffic
   generated by either LOADng Router A towards LOADng Router D or LOADng
   Router D towards LOADng Router A has to be forwarded by LOADng
   Routers B and C:






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        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+
        |   A   |________|   B   |________|   C   |________|   D   |
        |       |        |       |        |       |        |       |
        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+

   This test suite consists in establishing a bidirectional route
   between LOADng Router A and LOADng Router D.

3.6.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

   The expected message sequencing is as follows:

   o  LOADng Router A generates an RREQ message intended for LOADng
      Router D.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router B installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router B to LOADng Router A) and forwards the received RREQ.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router C installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router C to LOADng Router A) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      B (Reverse route from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router B) and
      forwards the received RREQ.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router D installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router D to LOADng Router A) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      C (Reverse route from LOADng Router D to LOADng Router C).  The
      reception of the RREQ also triggers the generation of an unicast
      RREP message intended for LOADng Router A, soliciting an RREP-ACK
      message.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router C installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router D (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router C to LOADng Router D), sends an unicast RREP-ACK message to
      LOADng Router D and forwards the RREP received previously.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router B installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router D (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router B to LOADng Router D) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      C (Forward Route from LOADng Router B to LOADng Router C).  An
      unicast RREP-ACK message is also sent to LOADng Router C and the
      RREP received previously is forwarded.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router A installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router B (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router A to LOADng Router B) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router



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      D (Forward Route from LOADng Router A to LOADng Router D).  The
      reception of the RREP also triggers an unicast RREP-ACK message
      intended for LOADng Router B.


       A                   B                   C                   D
       |     RREQ          |                   |                   |
       -------------------->                   |                   |
       |                   |     RREQ          |                   |
       |                   -------------------->                   |
       |                   |                   |     RREQ          |
       |                   |                   -------------------->
       |                   |                   |     RREP          |
       |                   |                   <--------------------
       |                   |                   |     RREP-ACK      |
       |                   |                   -------------------->
       |                   |     RREP          |                   |
       |                   <--------------------                   |
       |                   |     RREP-ACK      |                   |
       |                   -------------------->                   |
       |     RREP          |                   |                   |
       <--------------------                   |                   |
       |     RREP-ACK      |                   |                   |
       -------------------->                   |                   |
       |                   |                   |                   |

3.7.  Scenario 07: 3-hop bidirectional route establishment - Forward
      Route and Reverse Route updating

   This test aims to verify the refreshment of a bidirectional route
   (Forward Route and Reverse Route from A to D) already installed
   within the LOADng Router routing tables (Routing Sets) through the
   effective forwarding of LOADng control traffic by LOADng Routers B
   and C which are located between LOADng Router A and LOADng Router D.

3.7.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of four LOADng Routers.  Control traffic
   generated by either LOADng Router A towards LOADng Router D or LOADng
   Router D towards LOADng Router A has to be forwarded by LOADng
   Routers B and C:

        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+
        |   A   |________|   B   |________|   C   |________|   D   |
        |       |        |       |        |       |        |       |
        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+

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   LOADng Router A and LOADng Router D.

3.7.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

   The expected message sequencing is as follows:

   o  LOADng Router A generates an RREQ message intended for LOADng
      Router D.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router B updates the corresponding
      route (Reverse Route from LOADng Router B to LOADng Router A)
      already installed within its Routing Set and forwards the received
      RREQ.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router C updates the corresponding
      routes (Reverse Routes from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router A and
      from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router B) already installed within
      its Routing Set and forwards the received RREQ.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router D updates the corresponding
      routes (Reverse Routes from LOADng Router D to LOADng Router A and
      from LOADng Router D to LOADng Router C) already installed within
      its Routing Set. The reception of the RREQ also triggers the
      generation of an unicast RREP message intended for LOADng Router
      A, soliciting an RREP-ACK message.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router C updates the corresponding
      route (Forward Route from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router D),
      sends an unicast RREP-ACK message to LOADng Router D and forwards
      the RREP received previously.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router B updates the corresponding
      routes (Forward Route from LOADng Router B to LOADng Router D and
      from LOADng Router B to LOADng Router C).  An unicast RREP-ACK
      message is also sent to LOADng Router C and the RREP received
      previously is forwarded.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router A updates the corresponding
      routes (Forward Route from LOADng Router A to LOADng Router B and
      from LOADng Router A to LOADng Router D).  The reception of the
      RREP also triggers an unicast RREP-ACK message intended for LOADng
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       A                   B                   C                   D
       |     RREQ          |                   |                   |
       -------------------->                   |                   |
       |                   |     RREQ          |                   |
       |                   -------------------->                   |
       |                   |                   |     RREQ          |
       |                   |                   -------------------->
       |                   |                   |     RREP          |
       |                   |                   <--------------------
       |                   |                   |     RREP-ACK      |
       |                   |                   -------------------->
       |                   |     RREP          |                   |
       |                   <--------------------                   |
       |                   |     RREP-ACK      |                   |
       |                   -------------------->                   |
       |     RREP          |                   |                   |
       <--------------------                   |                   |
       |     RREP-ACK      |                   |                   |
       -------------------->                   |                   |
       |                   |                   |                   |

3.8.  Scenario 08: 3-hop bidirectional route establishment - Link
      breakage handling

   This test aims to verify the proper generation, processing and
   forwarding of a RERR message after an artificially created link
   breakage on an previously established bidirectional route.

3.8.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of four LOADng Routers.  Control traffic
   generated by either LOADng Router A towards LOADng Router D or LOADng
   Router D towards LOADng Router A has to be forwarded by LOADng
   Routers B and C:

        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+
        |   A   |________|   B   |________|   C   |________|   D   |
        |       |        |       |        |       |        |       |
        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+        +-------+

   This test suite consists in handling link breakages between LOADng
   Routers.

3.8.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

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   o  A bidirectional route is already established between LOADng
      Routers A and D.

   o  At some time, link breakage is detected by LOADng Router C.
      Consequently, an unicast RERR message intended for LOADng Router A
      (here the assumption is made that the unsuccessful delivered data
      traffic would have been generated by LOADng Router A) is
      transmitted to LOADng Router B according to the Reverse Route from
      LOADng Router C to LOADng Router A computed previously.

      Note: link breakage is provoked artificially and its detection by
      LOADng Router C is triggered manually (normally, this would be
      triggered by failure in sending data traffic intended for LOADng
      Router D).

   o  Upon receiving the RERR, LOADng Router B updates its Routing Set
      by invalidating the existing Forward Route from LOADng Router B to
      LOADng Router D. Afterwards, the RERR message is forwarded
      according to the existing Reverse Route from LOADng Router B to
      LOADng Router A.

   o  Upon receiving the RERR, LOADng Router A updates its Routing Set
      by invalidating the existing Forward Route from LOADng Router A to
      LOADng Router D.


       A                   B                   C                   D
       |                   |                   |                   |
       |                   |                   | C-D link breakage X
       |                   |                   |                   X
       |                   |     RERR          |                   X
       |                   <--------------------                   X
       |     RERR          |                   |                   X
       <--------------------                   |                   X
       |                   |                   |                   X

3.9.  Scenario 09: 4-hop bidirectional route establishment - Forward
      Route and Reverse Route initial installation

   This test aims to verify the initial installation of a bidirectional
   route (Forward Route and Reverse Route from A to E) within the LOADng
   Router routing tables (Routing Sets) through the effective forwarding
   of LOADng control traffic by LOADng Routers B, C and D, which are
   located between LOADng Router A and LOADng Router E. It is also
   verified that RREP-ACK messages are not forwarded by the LOADng
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3.9.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of five LOADng Routers.  Control traffic
   generated by either LOADng Router A towards LOADng Router E or LOADng
   Router E towards LOADng Router A has to be forwarded by LOADng
   Routers B, C and D:

   +-------+      +-------+      +-------+      +-------+      +-------+
   |   A   |______|   B   |______|   C   |______|   D   |______|   E   |
   |       |      |       |      |       |      |       |      |       |
   +-------+      +-------+      +-------+      +-------+      +-------+

   This test suite consists in establishing a bidirectional route
   between LOADng Router A and LOADng Router E.

3.9.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

   The expected message sequencing is as follows:

   o  LOADng Router A generates an RREQ message intended for LOADng
      Router E.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router B installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router B to LOADng Router A) and forwards the received RREQ.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router C installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router C to LOADng Router A) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      B (Reverse route from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router B) and
      forwards the received RREQ.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router D installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router D to LOADng Router A) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      C (Reverse route from LOADng Router D to LOADng Router C) and
      forwards the received RREQ.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router E installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router E to LOADng Router A) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      D (Reverse route from LOADng Router E to LOADng Router D).  The
      reception of the RREQ also triggers the generation of an unicast
      RREP message intended for LOADng Router A, soliciting an RREP-ACK
      message.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router D installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router E (Forward Route from LOADng



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      Router D to LOADng Router E), sends an unicast RREP-ACK message to
      LOADng Router E and forwards the RREP received previously.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router C installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router E (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router C to LOADng Router E) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      D (Forward Route from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router D).  An
      unicast RREP-ACK message is also sent to LOADng Router D and the
      RREP received previously is forwarded.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router B installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router E (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router B to LOADng Router E) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      C (Forward Route from LOADng Router B to LOADng Router C).  An
      unicast RREP-ACK message is also sent to LOADng Router C and the
      RREP received previously is forwarded.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router A installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router B (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router A to LOADng Router B) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      E (Forward Route from LOADng Router A to LOADng Router E).  The
      reception of the RREP also triggers an unicast RREP-ACK message
      intended for LOADng Router B.




























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       A              B              C              D              E
       |     RREQ     |              |              |              |
       --------------->              |              |              |
       |              |     RREQ     |              |              |
       |              --------------->              |              |
       |              |              |     RREQ     |              |
       |              |              --------------->              |
       |              |              |              |     RREQ     |
       |              |              |              --------------->
       |              |              |              |     RREP     |
       |              |              |              <---------------
       |              |              |              |     RREP-ACK |
       |              |              |              --------------->
       |              |              |     RREP     |              |
       |              |              <---------------              |
       |              |              |     RREP-ACK |              |
       |              |              --------------->              |
       |              |     RREP     |              |              |
       |              <---------------              |              |
       |              |     RREP-ACK |              |              |
       |              --------------->              |              |
       |     RREP     |              |              |              |
       <---------------              |              |              |
       |     RREP-ACK |              |              |              |
       --------------->              |              |              |
       |              |              |              |              |

3.10.  Scenario 10: 4-hop bidirectional route establishment - Link
       breakage handling

   This test aims to verify the proper generation, processing and
   forwarding of a RERR message after an artificially created link
   breakage on an previously established bidirectional route.

3.10.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of five LOADng Routers.  Control traffic
   generated by either LOADng Router A towards LOADng Router E or LOADng
   Router E towards LOADng Router A has to be forwarded by LOADng
   Routers B, C and D:

   +-------+      +-------+      +-------+      +-------+      +-------+
   |   A   |______|   B   |______|   C   |______|   D   |______|   E   |
   |       |      |       |      |       |      |       |      |       |
   +-------+      +-------+      +-------+      +-------+      +-------+

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3.10.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

   The expected message sequencing is as follows:

   o  A bidirectional route is already established between LOADng
      Routers A and E.

   o  At some time, a link breakage to E is detected by LOADng Router D.
      Consequently, an unicast RERR message intended for LOADng Router A
      (here the assumption is made that the unsuccessful delivered data
      traffic would have been generated by LOADng Router A) is
      transmitted to LOADng Router C according to the Reverse Route from
      LOADng Router C to LOADng Router A computed previously.

      Note: link breakage is provoked artificially and its detection by
      LOADng Router D is triggered manually (normally, this would be
      triggered by failure in sending data traffic intended for LOADng
      Router E).

   o  Upon receiving the RERR, LOADng Router C updates its Routing Set
      by invalidating the existing Forward Route from LOADng Router C to
      LOADng Router E. Afterwards, the RERR message is forwarded
      according to the existing Reverse Route from LOADng Router C to
      LOADng Router A.

   o  Upon receiving the RERR, LOADng Router B updates its Routing Set
      by invalidating the existing Forward Route from LOADng Router B to
      LOADng Router E. Afterwards, the RERR message is forwarded
      according to the existing Reverse Route from LOADng Router B to
      LOADng Router A.

   o  Upon receiving the RERR, LOADng Router A updates its Routing Set
      by invalidating the existing Forward Route from LOADng Router A to
      LOADng Router E.


       A              B              C              D              E
       |              |              |              |              |
       |              |              |              D-E link breakage
       |              |              |              |              X
       |              |              |     RERR     |              X
       |              |              <---------------              X
       |              |     RERR     |              |              X
       |              <---------------              |              X
       |     RERR     |              |              |              X
       <---------------              |              |              X
       |              |              |              |              X




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3.11.  Scenario 11: Establishment of the best bidirectional route

   This test aims to verify the processing of multiple RREQs when
   installing a bidirectional route (Forward Route and Reverse Route
   from A to C) within the LOADng Router routing tables (Routing Sets).

3.11.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of three LOADng Routers.  Control traffic
   generated by either LOADng Router A towards LOADng Router C or LOADng
   Router C towards LOADng Router A can be forwarded by LOADng Router B
   or transmitted via the direct link between LOADng Routers A and C:

                +-------+        +-------+        +-------+
                |   A   |________|   B   |________|   C   |
                |       |        |       |        |       |
                +-------+        +-------+        +-------+
                    |_________________________________|

   This test consists in establishing a bidirectional route between
   LOADng Router A and LOADng Router C. Hop count metric is used for
   measuring differet routes.

3.11.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

   The expected message sequencing is as follows:

   o  LOADng Router A generates an RREQ message intended for LOADng
      Router C. According to RREQ transmission rules, the generated RREQ
      message is transmitted to all neighbor LOADng Routers.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router B installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router B to LOADng Router A) and forwards the received RREQ.

      At the same time, upon receiving the same RREQ via its direct link
      with LOADng Router A, LOADng Router C installs a new tuple in its
      Routing Set (Reverse Route from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router
      A).  The reception of the RREQ also triggers the generation of an
      unicast RREP message intended for LOADng Router A, requiring RREP-
      ACK message.

   o  Upon receiving the same RREQ via LOADng Router B, LOADng Router C
      compares the RREQ.route-metric information carried by the RREQ
      with the already existing tuple within its Routing Set (Reverse
      Route from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router A) according to the
      comparison operator specified by the metric used (the "hop count"
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      the hop count:

     Already existing tuple:

             <R_hop_count> = 1

     Tuple corresponding to the newly received RREQ:

             <R_hop_count> = 2

     According to the comparison operator specified by the metric used:

             1 < 2

      Consequently, the newly received RREQ message is discarded without
      affecting the Routing Set or triggering the generation of any RREP
      message.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP via its direct link with LOADng Router C,
      LOADng Router A installs a new tuple in its Routing Set (Forward
      Route from LOADng Router A to LOADng Router C).  The reception of
      the RREP also triggers an unicast RREP-ACK message intended for
      LOADng Router C.


                 A                   B                   C
                 |     RREQ          |                   |
                 -------------------->     RREQ          |
                 ---------------------------------------->
                 |                   |     RREQ          |
                 |                   -------------------->
                 |                   |     RREP          |
                 <----------------------------------------
                 |                   |     RREP-ACK      |
                 ---------------------------------------->
                 |                   |                   |

   Note: the RREQ forwarded by LOADng Router B towards C is not
   necessarily received before LOADng Router C generates the RREP
   message intended for LOADng Router A. Indeed, the order in which
   those messages are transmitted is dependent on the transmission
   delays of each single link between LOADng Routers A, B and C.

3.12.  Scenario 12: Blacklisting

   This test aims to verify the effectiveness of avoiding unidirectional
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3.12.1.  Scenario Topology

   The testbed is composed of four LOADng Routers with a unidirectional
   link between LOADng Routers A and D (direct communication from D
   towards A is impossible).

                        +-------+         +-------+
                        |   A   |_________|   B   |
                        |       |         |       |
                        +-------+         +-------+
                            |                 |
                            V                 |
                        +-------+         +-------+
                        |   D   |_________|   C   |
                        |       |         |       |
                        +-------+         +-------+

   This test consists in establishing a bidirectional route between
   LOADng Router A and LOADng Router D.

3.12.2.  Expected Message Sequencing

   First attempt to establish a bidirectional route between LOADng
   Routers A and D:

   o  LOADng Router A generates an RREQ message (RREQ.seq-num = 0,
      RREQ.originator = A) intended for LOADng Router D.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router B installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router B to LOADng Router A) and forwards the received RREQ.

      At the same time, upon receiving the same RREQ via its direct
      (unidirectional) link with LOADng Router A, LOADng Router D
      installs a new tuple in its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A
      (Reverse Route from LOADng Router D to LOADng Router A).  The
      reception of the RREQ also triggers the generation of an unicast
      RREP message intended for LOADng Router A. The RREP.ackrequired
      the sent RREP message is set ('1').

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router C installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router C to LOADng Router A) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      B (Reverse route from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router B) and
      forwards the received RREQ.

   o  Upon receiving the same RREQ (RREQ.seq-num = 0, RREQ.originator =
      A) again via LOADng Router C, LOADng Router D compares the



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      RREQ.route-metric information carried by the RREQ with the already
      existing tuple within its Routing Set (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router D to LOADng Router A) according to the comparison operator
      specified by the metric used (hop count):

     Already existing tuple:

             <R_hop_count> = 1

     Tuple corresponding to the newly received RREQ:

             <R_hop_count> = 2

     According to the comparison operator specified by the metric used:

             1 < 2

      Consequently, the newly received RREQ message is discarded without
      affecting the Routing Set or triggering the generation of any RREP
      message.

   o  Due to the unidirectional nature of the existing link between
      LOADng Routers A and D, the RREP message previously sent by LOADng
      Router D intended for LOADng Router A did not reach its
      destination.  After an elapsed time equaling RREP_ACK_TIMEOUT,
      LOADng Router D is not expecting an RREP-ACK message anymore.
      This results in recording LOADng Router A neighbor in LOADng
      Router D's Blacklist.

   Second attempt to establish a bidirectional route between LOADng
   Routers A and D:

   o  LOADng Router A generates an RREQ message (RREQ.seq-num = 1,
      RREQ.originator = A) intended for LOADng Router D.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router B installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router A (Reverse Route from LOADng
      Router B to LOADng Router A) and forwards the received RREQ.

      At the same time, upon receiving the same RREQ via its blacklisted
      neighbor LOADng Router A, LOADng Router D discards the message.

   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router C updates the corresponding
      routes (Reverse Routes from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router A and
      from LOADng Router C to LOADng Router B) and forwards the received
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   o  Upon receiving the RREQ, LOADng Router D updates the already
      installed route (Reverse Route from LOADng Router C to LOADng
      Router A) and installs a new tuple towards LOADng Router C
      (Reverse route from LOADng Router D to LOADng Router C).  The
      reception of the RREQ also triggers the generation of an unicast
      RREP message intended for LOADng Router A. The RREP.ackrequired of
      the sent RREP message is set ('1').

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router C installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router D (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router C to LOADng Router D), sends an unicast RREP-ACK message to
      LOADng Router D and forwards the RREP received previously.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router B installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router D (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router B to LOADng Router D) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      C (Forward Route from LOADng Router B to LOADng Router C).  An
      unicast RREP-ACK message is also sent to LOADng Router C and the
      RREP received previously is forwarded.

   o  Upon receiving the RREP, LOADng Router A installs a new tuple in
      its Routing Set towards LOADng Router D (Forward Route from LOADng
      Router A to LOADng Router D) and a new tuple towards LOADng Router
      B (Forward Route from LOADng Router A to LOADng Router B).  The
      reception of the RREP also triggers an unicast RREP-ACK message
      intended for LOADng Router B.

























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     A                 B                 C                 D
     |                 |                 |                 |
     First attempt /////////////////////////////////////////
     |     RREQ        |                 |                 |
     ------------------>     RREQ        |                 |
     ------------------------------------------------------>
     |                 |     RREP        |                 |
     |XXXXX <-----------------------------------------------
     |                 |     RREQ        |                 |
     |                 ------------------>                 |
     |                 |                 |     RREQ        |
     |                 |                 ----------------->X RREQ
     |                 |                 |                 | Discarded
     Second attempt ////////////////////////////////////////
     |     RREQ        |                 |                 |
     ------------------>     RREQ        |                 |
     ----------------------------------------------------->X RREQ
     |                 |     RREQ        |                 | Discarded
     |                 ------------------>                 |
     |                 |                 |     RREQ        |
     |                 |                 ------------------>
     |                 |                 |     RREP        |
     |                 |                 <------------------
     |                 |                 |     RREP-ACK    |
     |                 |                 ------------------>
     |                 |     RREP        |                 |
     |                 <------------------                 |
     |                 |     RREP-ACK    |                 |
     |                 ------------------>                 |
     |     RREP        |                 |                 |
     <------------------                 |                 |
     |     RREP-ACK    |                 |                 |
     ------------------>                 |                 |

4.  Interop 01: Yokohama, Japan, October 2011

4.1.  Version of LOADng Specification Tested

   The interoperability tests were conducted according to the
   specification in [LOADng-00].

   NOTE: Due to the evolution of [LOADng] and this document, ome of the
   conventions used in Section 3, such as routing metric and some fields
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4.2.  Place and Date of Interoperability Test

   This section reports experience with the LOADng routing protocol,
   resulting from interoperability testing performed at Hitachi YRL in
   Yokohama, Japan, from october 17th to october 19th 2011.

4.3.  Participating Implementations

   The following implementations were used to perform the
   interoperability tests this section, listed alphabetically:

   Ecole Polytechnique: "LIX" -  This implementation was jointly
      developed by Axel Colin de Verdiere, Jiazi Yi, Ulrich Herberg and
      Thomas Clausen of Ecole Ploytechnique's networking team.  It
      consists of approximately 6000 lines of JAVA code running in a Mac
      OS environment.  It supports RREQ, RREP, RREP-ACK and RERR
      generation, processing, forwarding and transmission.

   Hitachi YRL 1: "Hitachi 1" -  This implementation was fully developed
      by Yuichi Igarashi of Hitachi YRL.  It consists of 1589 lines of C
      code running in the Hitachi proprietary micro OS environment
      embedded in a 16MHz H8 micro processor.  It supports RREQ, RREP,
      RREP-ACK and RERR generation, processing, forwarding and
      transmission.

   Hitachi YRL 2: "Hitachi 2" -  This implementation was jointly
      developed by Nobukatsu Inomata of Hitachi ULSI Systems and Yoko
      Morii of Hitachi YRL.  It consists of 1987 lines of C++ code
      running in a Mac OS environment.  It supports RREQ, RREP, RREP-ACK
      generation, processing, forwarding and transmission, and RERR
      processing.

4.4.  Scenarios Tested

   This interoperability test includes all scenarios 01-12 (inclusive).

4.5.  Additional Interoperability Test Considerations

   Wireshark packet sniffers, modified to interpret LOADng control
   traffic, were used to monitor each link, so as to verify propper
   message sequencing.

   For each test, the initiation of the communication resulting in the
   generation of the first LOADng control traffic message is always
   triggered manually.  In addition, RREP-ACK LOADng control messages
   were systematically expected from each LOADng Router upon reception
   of a RREP LOADng control message in order to allow the detection of
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4.6.  Results For Scenario 01

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a 1-hop Forward Route and Reverse
   Route initial installation test was performed:

               +-----------+------+-----------+-----------+
               |           |  LIX | Hitachi 1 | Hitachi 2 |
               +-----------+------+-----------+-----------+
               |    LIX    |  N/R |    Pass   |    Pass   |
               | Hitachi 1 | Pass |    N/R    |    Pass   |
               | Hitachi 2 | Pass |    Pass   |    N/R    |
               +-----------+------+-----------+-----------+

                                  Table 1

4.7.  Results For Scenario 02

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a 1-hop Forward Route and Reverse
   Route updating test was performed:

               +-----------+------+-----------+-----------+
               |           |  LIX | Hitachi 1 | Hitachi 2 |
               +-----------+------+-----------+-----------+
               |    LIX    |  N/R |    Pass   |    Pass   |
               | Hitachi 1 | Pass |    N/R    |    Pass   |
               | Hitachi 2 | Pass |    Pass   |    N/R    |
               +-----------+------+-----------+-----------+

                                  Table 2

4.8.  Results For Scenario 03

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a 2-hop Forward Route and Reverse
   Route initial installation test was performed:














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              +-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
              |     A     |     B     |     C     | Result |
              +-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
              | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 |  Pass  |
              | Hitachi 2 |    LIX    | Hitachi 1 |  Pass  |
              |    LIX    | Hitachi 1 | Hitachi 2 |  Pass  |
              | Hitachi 2 | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    |  Pass  |
              |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 | Hitachi 1 |  Pass  |
              | Hitachi 1 | Hitachi 2 |    LIX    |  Pass  |
              +-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+

                                  Table 3

4.9.  Results For Scenario 04

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a 2-hop Forward Route and Reverse
   Route updating test was performed:

              +-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
              |     A     |     B     |     C     | Result |
              +-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
              | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 |  Pass  |
              | Hitachi 2 |    LIX    | Hitachi 1 |  Pass  |
              |    LIX    | Hitachi 1 | Hitachi 2 |  Pass  |
              | Hitachi 2 | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    |  Pass  |
              |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 | Hitachi 1 |  Pass  |
              | Hitachi 1 | Hitachi 2 |    LIX    |  Pass  |
              +-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+

                                  Table 4

4.10.  Results For Scenario 05

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a Link breakage handling test was
   performed:

                 +-----------+-----------+-----+--------+
                 |     A     |     B     |  C  | Result |
                 +-----------+-----------+-----+--------+
                 | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    | LIX |  Pass  |
                 |    LIX    | Hitachi 1 | LIX |  Pass  |
                 +-----------+-----------+-----+--------+

                                  Table 5





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4.11.  Results For Scenario 06

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a 3-hop Forward Route and Reverse
   Route initial installation test was performed:

        +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
        |     A     |     B     |     C     |     D     | Result |
        +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
        | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 |  Pass  |
        | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 |    LIX    |  Pass  |
        |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    |  Pass  |
        +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+

                                  Table 6

4.12.  Results For Scenario 07

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a 3-hop Forward Route and Reverse
   Route updating test was performed:

        +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
        |     A     |     B     |     C     |     D     | Result |
        +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
        | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 |  Pass  |
        | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 |    LIX    |  Pass  |
        |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    |  Pass  |
        +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+

                                  Table 7

4.13.  Results For Scenario 08

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a Link breakage handling test was
   performed:

           +-----------+-----------+-----+-----------+--------+
           |     A     |     B     |  C  |     D     | Result |
           +-----------+-----------+-----+-----------+--------+
           | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    | LIX | Hitachi 2 |  Pass  |
           |    LIX    | Hitachi 1 | LIX | Hitachi 2 |  Pass  |
           +-----------+-----------+-----+-----------+--------+

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4.14.  Results For Scenario 09

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a 4-hop Forward Route and Reverse
   Route initial installation test was performed:

        +-----------+-----------+-----+-----------+-----+--------+
        |     A     |     B     |  C  |     D     |  E  | Result |
        +-----------+-----------+-----+-----------+-----+--------+
        | Hitachi 2 | Hitachi 1 | LIX | Hitachi 1 | LIX |  Pass  |
        +-----------+-----------+-----+-----------+-----+--------+

                                  Table 9

4.15.  Results For Scenario 10

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a Link breakage handling test was
   performed:

        +-----------+-----------+-----+-----------+-----+--------+
        |     A     |     B     |  C  |     D     |  E  | Result |
        +-----------+-----------+-----+-----------+-----+--------+
        | Hitachi 2 | Hitachi 1 | LIX | Hitachi 1 | LIX |  Pass  |
        +-----------+-----------+-----+-----------+-----+--------+

                                 Table 10

4.16.  Results For Scenario 11

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a test consisting in the
   establishment of the best bidirectional route was performed:

              +-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
              |     A     |     B     |     C     | Result |
              +-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
              |    LIX    | Hitachi 1 | Hitachi 2 |  Pass  |
              |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 | Hitachi 1 |  Pass  |
              | Hitachi 2 | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    |  Pass  |
              | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    | Hitachi 2 |  Pass  |
              +-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+

                                 Table 11







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4.17.  Results For Scenario 12

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a Blacklisting test was performed:

           +-----------+-----+-----------+-----------+--------+
           |     A     |  B  |     C     |     D     | Result |
           +-----------+-----+-----------+-----------+--------+
           | Hitachi 2 | LIX | Hitachi 1 |    LIX    |  Pass  |
           |    LIX    | LIX | Hitachi 1 | Hitachi 2 |  Pass  |
           | Hitachi 2 | LIX |    LIX    | Hitachi 1 |  Pass  |
           +-----------+-----+-----------+-----------+--------+

                                 Table 12

4.18.  Conclusions

   The different test scenarios carried that were carried out for
   different interoperable and independent implementations allowed to
   completely cover the [LOADng-00] specification by checking each
   technical feature one by one.  In addition, the completion of this
   process permitted the improvement of the overall quality and accuracy
   of the [LOADng-00] specification.

       +------+----------------+-----------------------+-----------+
       |      |                |                       |Test suites|
       |Chap. |      Item      |   Technical feature   +-----------+
       |      |                |                       |A|B|C|D|E|F|
       +------+----------------+------------+----------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |6.1   |                |            |Originator|X|X|X| |X|X|
       +------+ Information    |Routing Set +----------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |6.1   | Base           |            |Previous  | |X|X|X| |X|
       +------+                +------------+----------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |6.2   |                |Blacklist Neighbor set | | | | | |X|
       +------+----------------+-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |8.1   |                |TLV                    |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+                +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |8.2.1 | Packet         |Route Request Message  |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+ Format         +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |8.2.1 |                |Route Reply Message    |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+                +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |8.2.2 |                |Route Reply Ack Message|X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+                +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |8.2.3 |                |Route Error Message    | |X|X|X| | |
       +------+----------------+-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |10.1  | Unidirectional |Blacklist              | | | | | |X|
       |      | link handling  |                       | | | | | | |
       +------+----------------+-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+



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       |11.1  |                |Invalid RREQ, RREP     |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+ Common rules   +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |11.2  | for RREQ, RREP |RREQ, RREP Processing  |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+ Message        +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |11.3  |                |Updating RREQ, RREP    |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+----------------+-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |12.1  |                |RREQ Generation        |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+                +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |12.2  | Route          |RREQ Processing        |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+ Requests       +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |12.3  | (RREQs)        |RREQ Forwarding        | |X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+                +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |12.4  |                |RREQ Transmission      |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+----------------+-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |13.1  |                |RREP Generation        |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+                +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |13.2  | Route          |RREP Processing        |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+ Replies        +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |13.3  | (RREPs)        |RREP Forwarding        | |X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+                +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |13.4  |                |RREP Transmission      |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+----------------+-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |14.1  |                |RERR Generation        | |X|X|X| | |
       +------+                +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |14.2  | Route          |RERR Processing        | |X|X|X| | |
       +------+ Errors         +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |14.3  | (RERRs)        |RERR Forwarding        | | |X|X| | |
       +------+                +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |14.4  |                |RERR Transmission      | |X|X|X| | |
       +------+----------------+-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |15.1  |                |RREP-ACK Generation    |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+                +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |15.2  | Route          |RREQ-ACK Processing    |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+ Reply          +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |15.3  | Acknowledgement|RREQ-ACK Forwarding    |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+ (RREP-ACKs)    +-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |15.4  |                |RREQ-ACK Transmission  |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       +------+----------------+-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |16    | Metrics        |Hop Count While        |X|X|X|X|X|X|
       |      |                |Avoiding Weak Links    | | | | | | |
       +------+----------------+-----------------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Test suite A : 1-hop bidirectional route establishment (scenarios 01,
   02)

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   Test suite C : 3-hop bidirectional route establishment (scenarios 06,
   07, 08)

   Test suite D : 4-hop bidirectional route establishment (scenarios 09,
   10)

   Test suite E : Establishment of the best bidirectional route
   (scenario 11)

   Test suite F : Blacklisting (scenario 12)

5.  Interop 02: San Jose, USA March 2012

5.1.  LOADng version tested

   The interoperability tests were conducted according to the
   specification in [LOADng-03].

   NOTE: Due to the evolution of [LOADng] and this document, ome of the
   conventions used in Section 3, such as routing metric and some fields
   of messages, may be different from the description in [LOADng-03].

5.2.  Place and Date of Interoperability Test

   This section reports experience with the LOADng routing protocol,
   resulting from interoperability testing performed at Fujitsu
   Laboratories of America (FLA), San Jose, USA, on April 13, 2012.

5.3.  Participating Implementations

   The following implementations were used to perform the
   interoperability tests this section, listed alphabetically:

   Ecole Polytechnique: "LIX" -  This implementation was jointly
      developed by Axel Colin de Verdiere, Jiazi Yi, Ulrich Herberg and
      Thomas Clausen of Ecole Ploytechnique's networking team.  It
      consists of approximately 6000 lines of JAVA code running in a Mac
      OS environment.  It supports RREQ, RREP, RREP-ACK and RERR
      generation, processing, forwarding and transmission.

   Fujitsu Laboratories of America: "FLA" -  This implementation was
      developed by Ulrich Herberg from Fujitsu Laboratories of America.
      It is a Java implementation, supporting basic features (RREQ,
      RREP, RREP-ACK generation, processing, forwarding and
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5.4.  Interoperability Test Considerations

   As an intermediate test, only a subset of the scenarios described
   were tested (01, 03 and 05), for verifying interoperability bug-
   fixing the involved implementations.

5.5.  Results For Scenario 01

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a 1-hop Forward Route and Reverse
   Route initial installation test was performed:

                           +-----+------+------+
                           |     |  LIX |  FLA |
                           +-----+------+------+
                           | LIX |  N/R | Pass |
                           | FLA | Pass |  N/R |
                           +-----+------+------+

                                 Table 13

5.6.  Results For Scenrio 03

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a 2-hop Forward Route and Reverse
   Route initial installation test was performed:

                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+
                       |  A  |  B  |  C  | Result |
                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+
                       | LIX | FLA | LIX |  Pass  |
                       | LIX | LIX | FLA |  Pass  |
                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+

                                 Table 14

5.7.  Results For Scenario 05

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which a Link breakage handling test was
   performed:

                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+
                       |  A  |  B  |  C  | Result |
                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+
                       | LIX | FLA | LIX |  Pass  |
                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+




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                                 Table 15

6.  Interop 03: Los Angeles, USA, June 2012

6.1.  Version of LOADng Specification Tested

   The interoperability tests were conducted according to the
   specification in [LOADng-04].

   NOTE: Due to the evolution of [LOADng] and this document, some of the
   conventions used in Section 3, such as routing metric and some fields
   of messages, may be different from the description in [LOADng-04].

6.2.  Place and Date of Interoperability Test

   This section reports experience with the LOADng routing protocol,
   resulting from interoperability testing performed at the Los Angeles
   Airport Hilton, USA, on June 6, 2012.

6.3.  Participating Implementations

   The following implementations were used to perform the
   interoperability tests this section, listed alphabetically:

   Ecole Polytechnique: "LIX" -  This implementation was jointly
      developed by Axel Colin de Verdiere, Jiazi Yi, Ulrich Herberg and
      Thomas Clausen of Ecole Ploytechnique's networking team.  It
      consists of approximately 6000 lines of JAVA code running in a Mac
      OS environment.  It supports RREQ, RREP, RREP-ACK and RERR
      generation, processing, forwarding and transmission.

   Fujitsu Laboratories of America: "FLA" -  This implementation was
      developed by Ulrich Herberg from Fujitsu Laboratories of America.
      It is a Java implementation, supporting basic features (RREQ,
      RREP, RREP-ACK generation, processing, forwarding and
      transmision).

6.4.  Scenarios Tested

   This interoperability test includes scenarios 01-12 (inclusive).

6.5.  Additional Interoperability Test Considerations

   Wireshark packet sniffers, that have been modified to interpret
   LOADng control traffic, were used to monitor each single underlying
   link.

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   generation of the first LOADng control traffic message is always
   triggered manually.  In addition, RREP-ACK LOADng control messages
   were systematically expected from each LOADng Router upon reception
   of a RREP LOADng control message in order to allow the detection of
   unidirectional links.

6.6.  Results For Scenario 01-02

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which test 1 (Forward Route and Reverse
   Route initial installation) was performed:

                           +-----+------+------+
                           |     |  LIX |  FLA |
                           +-----+------+------+
                           | LIX |  N/R | Pass |
                           | FLA | Pass |  N/R |
                           +-----+------+------+

                                 Table 16

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which test 2 (Forward Route and Reverse
   Route updating) was performed:

                           +-----+------+------+
                           |     |  LIX |  FLA |
                           +-----+------+------+
                           | LIX |  N/R | Pass |
                           | FLA | Pass |  N/R |
                           +-----+------+------+

                                 Table 17

6.7.  Results For Scenario 03-04-05

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which these test 1 (Forward Route and
   Reverse Route initial installation) and test 2 (Forward Route and
   Reverse Route updating) were performed:











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                   +-----+-----+-----+--------+--------+
                   |  A  |  B  |  C  | Test 1 | Test 2 |
                   +-----+-----+-----+--------+--------+
                   | LIX | FLA | LIX |  Pass  |  Pass  |
                   | LIX | LIX | FLA |  Pass  |  Pass  |
                   | FLA | LIX | LIX |  Pass  |  Pass  |
                   +-----+-----+-----+--------+--------+

                                 Table 18

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which these test 3 (Link breakage
   handling) was performed:

                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+
                       |  A  |  B  |  C  | Test 3 |
                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+
                       | FLA | LIX | LIX |  Pass  |
                       | LIX | FLA | LIX |  Pass  |
                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+

                                 Table 19

6.8.  Results For Scenario 06-07-08

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which these test 1 (Forward Route and
   Reverse Route initial installation) and test 2 (Forward Route and
   Reverse Route updating) were performed:

                +-----+-----+-----+-----+--------+--------+
                |  A  |  B  |  C  |  D  | Test 1 | Test 2 |
                +-----+-----+-----+-----+--------+--------+
                | LIX | FLA | LIX | LIX |  Pass  |  Pass  |
                | LIX | LIX | FLA | LIX |  Pass  |  Pass  |
                | FLA | LIX | LIX | LIX |  Pass  |  Pass  |
                | LIX | LIX | LIX | FLA |  Pass  |  Pass  |
                +-----+-----+-----+-----+--------+--------+

                                 Table 20

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which these test 3 (Link breakage
   handling) was performed:







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                    +-----+-----+-----+-----+--------+
                    |  A  |  B  |  C  |  D  | Test 3 |
                    +-----+-----+-----+-----+--------+
                    | FLA | LIX | LIX | LIX |  Pass  |
                    | LIX | LIX | LIX | FLA |  Pass  |
                    +-----+-----+-----+-----+--------+

                                 Table 21

6.9.  Results For Scenario 09-10

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which test 1 (Forward Route and Reverse
   Route initial installation) and test 2 (Link breakage handling) were
   performed:

             +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+--------+--------+
             |  A  |  B  |  C  |  D  |  E  | Test 1 | Test 2 |
             +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+--------+--------+
             | FLA | FLA | LIX | LIX | LIX |  Pass  |  Pass  |
             | LIX | LIX | LIX | FLA | FLA |  Pass  |  Pass  |
             +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+--------+--------+

                                 Table 22

6.10.  Results For Scenario 11

   The following table is summarizing the results obtained for the
   different combinations for which this test was performed:

                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+
                       |  A  |  B  |  C  | Result |
                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+
                       | LIX | FLA | LIX |  Pass  |
                       | LIX | LIX | FLA |  Pass  |
                       | FLA | LIX | LIX |  Pass  |
                       +-----+-----+-----+--------+

                                 Table 23

6.11.  Conclusions

   The different test scenarios carried that were carried out for
   different interoperable and independent implementations allowed to
   cover all major features of the LOADng specification by checking each
   technical feature one by one.  In addition, the completion of this
   process permitted the improvement of the overall quality and accuracy
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7.  Security Considerations

   This document does currently not specify any security considerations.

8.  IANA Considerations

   This document has no actions for IANA.

9.  Contributors

   This specification is the result of the joint efforts of the
   following contributors -- listed alphabetically.

   o  Alberto Camacho, LIX, France, <alberto@albertocamacho.com>

   o  Thomas Heide Clausen, LIX, France, <T.Clausen@computer.org>

   o  Axel Colin de Verdiere, LIX, France, <axel@axelcdv.com>

   o  Ulrich Herberg, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA,
      <ulrich.herberg@us.fujitsu.com>

   o  Yuichi Igarashi, HITACHI YRL, Japan,
      <yuichi.igarashi.hb@hitachi.com>

   o  Nobukatsu Inomata, HITACHI ULSI Systems, Japan,
      <nobukatsu.inomata.rf@hitachi.com>

   o  Yoko Morii, HITACHI YRL, Japan, <yoko.morii.cs@hitachi.com>

   o  Hiroki Satoh, HITACHI YRL, Japan, <hiroki.satoh.yj@hitachi.com>

   o  Jiazi Yi, LIX, France, <jiazi@jiaziyi.com>

10.  Acknowledgments

   TBD

11.  References

11.1.  Normative References

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







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11.2.  Informative References

   [LOADng]     Clausen, T., Colin de Verdiere, A., Yi, J., Niktash, A.,
                Igarashi, Y., Satoh, H., Herberg, U., Lavenu, C., Lys,
                T., and C. Perkins, "The LLN On-demand Ad hoc Distance-
                vector Routing Protocol - Next Generation (LOADng)",
                draft-clausen-lln-loadng (work in progress), July 2012.

   [LOADng-00]  Clausen, T., Colin de Verdiere, A., Yi, J., Lavenu, C.,
                Lys, T., Niktash, A., Igarashi, Y., and H. Satoh, "The
                LLN On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector Routing Protocol -
                Next Generation (LOADng)", draft-clausen-lln-loadng-00
                (work in progress), October 2011.

   [LOADng-03]  Clausen, T., Colin de Verdiere, A., Yi, J., Niktash, A.,
                Igarashi, Y., Satoh, H., Herberg, U., Lavenu, C., and T.
                Lys, "The LLN On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector Routing
                Protocol - Next Generation (LOADng)",
                draft-clausen-lln-loadng-03 (work in progress),
                March 2012.

   [LOADng-04]  Clausen, T., Colin de Verdiere, A., Yi, J., Niktash, A.,
                Igarashi, Y., Satoh, H., Herberg, U., Lavenu, C., and T.
                Lys, "The LLN On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector Routing
                Protocol - Next Generation (LOADng)",
                draft-clausen-lln-loadng-04 (work in progress),
                April 2012.

   [LOADng-05]  Clausen, T., Colin de Verdiere, A., Yi, J., Niktash, A.,
                Igarashi, Y., Satoh, H., Herberg, U., Lavenu, C., Lys,
                T., and C. Perkins, "The LLN On-demand Ad hoc Distance-
                vector Routing Protocol - Next Generation (LOADng)",
                draft-clausen-lln-loadng-05 (work in progress),
                July 2012.

Authors' Addresses

   Thomas Heide Clausen
   LIX, Ecole Polytechnique

   Phone: +33 6 6058 9349
   EMail: T.Clausen@computer.org
   URI:   http://www.ThomasClausen.org/








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   Alberto Camacho
   LIX, Ecole Polytechnique

   Phone: +34 636 309 835
   EMail: alberto@albertocamacho.com
   URI:   http://www.albertocamacho.com/


   Jiazi Yi
   LIX, Ecole Polytechnique

   Phone: +33 1 6933 4031
   EMail: jiazi@jiaziyi.com
   URI:   http://www.jiaziyi.com/


   Axel Colin de Verdiere
   LIX, Ecole Polytechnique

   Phone: +33 6 1264 7119
   EMail: axel@axelcdv.com
   URI:   http://www.axelcdv.com/


   Yuichi Igarashi
   Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory

   Phone: +81 45 860 3083
   EMail: yuichi.igarashi.hb@hitachi.com
   URI:   http://www.hitachi.com/rd/yrl/index.html


   Hiroki Satoh
   Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory

   Phone: +81 44 959 0205
   EMail: hiroki.satoh.yj@hitachi.com
   URI:   http://www.hitachi.com/rd/yrl/index.html


   Yoko Morii
   Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory

   Phone: +81 45 860 3083
   EMail: yoko.morii.cs@hitachi.com
   URI:   http://www.hitachi.com/rd/yrl/index.html





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   Ulrich Herberg
   Fujitsu Laboratories of America

   Phone: +1 408 530 4528
   EMail: ulrich@herberg.name
   URI:   http://www.herberg.name/


   Cedric Lavenu
   EDF R&D

   Phone: +33 1 4765 2729
   EMail: cedric-2.lavenu@edf.fr
   URI:   http://www.edf.fr/





































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