Abstract: “Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) are growing in popularity due to the abundance of mobile devices, the speed and convenience of deployment, and the independence of network infrastructure. In such an IP-based network, IP address assignment to mobile devices is one of the most important network configuration parameters. A mobile device cannot participate in unicast communications until it is assigned a free IP address and the corresponding subnet mask. One of the most important resources is the set of IP addresses that are assigned to the network. When a new node wants to join a network, it has to be assigned an IP address as part of its initialization. For assigning an IP address to nodes one should meet the following requirements: There should be no conflict in IP address assignment, i.e., at any given instant of time there should not be two or more nodes with the same IP address. An IP address is assigned only for the duration the node stays in the network. When the node departs the net”

Keywords: unicast, communications, assigned, IP address