Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc.

Kyung-lim Kang

Jung-ho Kim

Young-Gon Choi

Jae-Hoon Kim

Shubhranshu Singh

Yong-Sung Roh

Chang-seok Oh

Sung-Hee Lee

Dong-Keun Lee

Hyun-sik Kang

Brian L Mark

Jae-hoon Kim

Jeong-sik In

Young-bae Ko

Kee-cheon Kim

Singh Shubhranshu

Young-sung Roh

Jae-pil You

In general, an Internet gateway assigns an address to a node of an ad-hoc network on receipt of request for an address assignment. However, a load exerted to the Internet gateway increases. Accordingly, one (proxy node) of the nodes of an ad-hoc network can serve as a proxy node to perform an address assignment function of the Internet gateway. That is, if a node of the ad-hoc node does not receive an advertisement message, it requests the Internet gateway for address assignment to perform the proxy node function. The node is assigned with at least two addresses from the Internet gateway, and then assigns the address to the requesting node. Accordingly, a load exerted to the Internet gateway can be reduced.

Method for address assignment in ad-hoc network

An ad-hoc network and routing method that takes account of mobility are provided. The ad-hoc network includes at least one node, which calculates a probability that a neighbor node is present in a transmission range of the node, generates a message containing the calculated probability, and transmits the message to the neighbor node. The at least one node may also update the message with a lower probability of the calculated probability and a probability contained in the message, and transmit the updated message to the neighbor node. The node may also determine as a route a path along which a message is transmitted from the message containing the highest probability among probabilities contained in messages that are received.

Ad-hoc network for routing in consideration of mobility and routing method thereof

An ad-hoc network for routing extension by supporting the IPv6 protocol and a method for routing extension. The ad-hoc network comprises a gateway for appending an address configuration message to an ad-hoc Routing REPly (RREP) message and transmitting an extended ad-hoc RREP message; and a node for separating the address configuration message from the received extended ad-hoc RREP message, establishing a packet transmission path using the ad-hoc RREP message, and configuring a global address using the separated address configuration message. Accordingly, the present invention provides efficiency and improves the network scalability by utilizing the existing IPv6 protocol without amendments and reducing the size of the packet transmitted.

Ad-hoc network for routing extension to support internet protocol version 6(IPV6) and method thereof

A service provider discovery method in a wireless network environment, includes receiving, by the gateway, a service request (SREQ) packet which is broadcast from a first mobile node in the ad-hoc network; updating and transmitting, by the gateway, the SREQ packet to a service repository which stores at least one service provider information, in the infrastructure network; transmitting, by the service repository, a service reply (SREP) packet containing information relating to a service provider which provides a service requested by the SREQ packet to the gateway, and updating and transmitting, by the gateway, the SREP packet to the first mobile node. Accordingly, the service can be used in association with the ad-hoc network and the infrastructure network.

Gateway for interconnecting ad-hoc network and infrastructure network, and methods for discovering and registering service provider using gateway

A method for assigning a global address to a node in an ad-hoc network is provided. A joining node to the ad-hoc network generates a local address using its MAC address. The joining node inquires of its one-hop nodes about whether they occupy a local address that is the same as the generated local address. When the joining node is informed that there are no nodes occupying the same local address, it generates a global address using the generated local address and a global prefix provided from neighbor nodes. The joining node inquires of an Internet gateway about whether the generated global address is currently used. When the joining node is informed that there are no nodes currently using the same global address, the joining node is assigned the generated global address. Further, the joining node and the Internet gateway communicate messages via a relay node using a tunneling.

Method and system for address assignment in mobile ad-hoc network

A method for relaying packets through a relay node in a communication system composed of a source node, a destination node and at least one relay node for transferring the packets transmitted from the source node to the destination node. The relay node compares a potential corresponding to a number of hops and constituting the transferred packets with a stored potential from the destination node. If the stored potential is smaller than the potential constituting the packets, the relay node updates the packet and broadcasts the updated packets. Also, according to a method for setting a route for transmitting packets, packets are broadcast and it is checked whether updated packets obtained by updating the broadcast packets are received. If updated packets are received, an address of a packet transmission node constituting the updated packets is stored and the following packets are transmitted to the node having the stored address.

System and method of routing in a router in a communication system

A method, medium, and system for connecting to a communication system in a network having a plurality of nodes capable of communicating with each other. The node requests an identifier to a foreign network when a router advertise (RA) message is received from the foreign network, and then the node connects to the communication system, via the foreign network, by use of the received identifier. A method, medium, and system for delegating a network identifier (prefix) from a server of a foreign network, in a network having a plurality of nodes capable of communicating with each other, so that a node can communicate with the foreign network. The prefix to be used by the nodes in the network is transmitted from the server of the foreign network to the node.

Prefix delegation system and method of ad-hoc network

A wireless ad-hoc network for transmitting packets to target regions, and a packet transmission method thereof, are provided. The ad-hoc network includes at least one relay node for receiving a packet containing location information of at least two target regions each including at least one node, separating the received packet by the location information, forming a new packet for each instance of the location information separated from the received packet, and forwarding the new packets to corresponding target regions; and a source node for generating the packet containing the location information and transmitting the packet to the relay node. The present invention can reduce the packet transmission overhead, the packet transmission delay, and the power required for the packet transmission. Therefore, the packets can be delivered to the target regions in an efficient manner.

Ad-hoc network for transmitting packets to plural target regions and packet transmission method thereof

A hand-off method including detecting edge nodes located at edges of a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET); retransmitting, at the detected edge nodes, an Internet gateway advertisement message (IGAM) at a new period; and performing a hand-off of a mobile device moving from an infrastructure network to the MANET using the retransmitted IGAM.

Hand-off method using edge nodes in mobile ad-hoc network

A method for a hybrid service discovery adapting between push-based and pull-based schemes in a mobile ad-hoc network and a system thereof. The method includes periodically transmitting a first control packet for providing service information from a service provider that is capable of providing a service to nodes located in a specified advertisement zone, transmitting a second control packet requesting the service from a service demander to one or more nodes in a network, and transmitting a third control packet including path information of the service provider if at least one of the nodes located within the advertisement zone and the service provider receives the second control packet. The method and the system can reduce the amount of control packet transmission and minimize an end-to-end delay.

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Kyung-lim Kang