January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
13h 33m
English
Neighbor discovery (ND) is defined by RFC4861 as a one-hop routing protocol. This is a formal contract between neighbor nodes in the mesh and allows nodes to communicate with each other. ND is the process of discovering new neighbors, as a mesh can grow, shrink, and transform, resulting in new and changing neighbor relations. There are two basic processes and four basic message types in ND:
During ND, there can be conflicts that arise. For example, if a host node disassociates with a router and establishes a link with a different ...
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