| The purpose of this thesis is to provide a routing solution for a large scale tactical inter-domain network containing multiple Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) and fixed networks. The solution proposed in this thesis involved using Open Shortest Path First – MANET Designated Router (OSPF-MDR) and OSPFv3 in the fixed networks. A border gateway routing protocol which actualizes wireless mobility features and routing abilities similar to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), named BGP – MANET Routing (BGPMR), was also proposed. BGP-MR introduces the dynamic election of gateways and recursive purging of routes from the BGP table as BGP peers are lost due to mobility.;The proposed solution is tested to show OSPF's ability to provide convergence in large scale networks. Our results showed that after 20 minutes, networks running OSPF converged. The results demonstrate BGP-MR's ability to provide seamless routing and reduced overhead in interconnecting MANETs, regardless of their partitioning and merging characteristics. |
