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This draft is a work item of the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Working Group of the IETF.

	Title		: The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc 
                          Networks
	Author(s)	: J. Broch, D. Johnson, D. Maltz
	Filename	: draft-ietf-manet-dsr-02.txt
	Pages		: 49
	Date		: 29-Jun-99
	
Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) is a routing protocol designed
specifically for use in mobile ad hoc networks.  The protocol allows
nodes to dynamically discover a source route across multiple network
hops to any destination in the ad hoc network.  When using source
routing, each packet to be routed carries in its header the complete,
ordered list of nodes through which the packet must pass.  A key
advantage of source routing is that intermediate hops do not need
to maintain routing information in order to route the packets they
receive, since the packets themselves already contain all of the
necessary routing information.  This, coupled with the dynamic,
on-demand nature of DSR's Route Discovery, completely eliminates the
need for periodic router advertisements and link status packets,
significantly reducing the overhead of DSR, especially during periods
when the network topology is stable and these packets serve only as
keep-alives.

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