The effect of network traffic on Duplicate Address Detection in wireless ad-hoc networks

While much effort has been put in the development of IP new address auto-configuration protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks, very little has been done in testing how different network conditions affect the performance of these protocols. Conditions such as network topology, mobility etc, have been found to have an effect on routing protocol performance. As a result more robust routing protocols are being designed. Just like routing protocols, auto configuration protocols are also affected by different network conditions. Inorder to design robust protocols, investigations on how different network conditions affect the performance of auto configuration protocols are thus important. In this paper, we investigate the effects of network traffic on Duplicate Address Detection. Address uniqueness, communication overhead and latency were used for analysis. In our simulation, we considered the performance of strongDAD under three different types of network traffic: Pareto, Exponential and CBR.