Ericsson Telecomunicacoes S.a.

Eduardo Souto

Djamel Sadok

Judith Kelner

Rafael Roque Aschoff

A distributed network address allocation method is disclosed. For this purpose, an apparatus is provided for use as or in a node of the network. The apparatus comprises a portion () for maintaining a seed value n and a state value s. An address () of the node is determined from the seed value n by address setting portion (). A portion () is provided for receiving a request from a new node wishing to join the network and itself adapted to perform the method. A portion () is provided for generating a proposed seed value using the formula (n+2) and a proposed state value using the formula (s+1). A portion () is provided for offering the proposed seed and state values to the new node. A portion () is provided for updating the node's state value s to be the same as that accepted by the new node, if the proposed seed and state values are accepted by the new node. This provides unique address allocation to nodes in a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network.

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Manaus, Brazil

Eduardo Souto