In the real world one of the most important challenge for the broad implementation of mobile ad hoc network (MANET) technology is the finding way to capably interconnect them with the Internet. Yet, such interconnections are very... more
In the real world one of the most important challenge for the broad implementation of mobile ad hoc network (MANET) technology is the finding way to capably interconnect them with the Internet. Yet, such interconnections are very difficult due to differences in mobility, addressing and routing between MANETs and reside IP networks. Imprecise address and routing techniques are hard to integrate. In this paper we propose the half tunnels as a powerful transition technique to integrate various networks. In this paper, we will also discuss some existing solutions like default routes host route etc to interconnect MANETs with the Internet, but on analysis we find them lacking in robustness and flexibility. For example, many solutions do not consider the presence of multiple gateways, and in such scenarios they either fail, or are less efficient due to the lack of multi-homing capabilities.
