Ad hoc networks lack support of infrastructure and operate in a shared bandwidth wireless environment. Presently, such networks\nhave been realized by various adaptations in Internet Protocol (IP) architecture which was developed for infrastructure oriented\nhierarchical networks. The IP architecture has its known problem and issues even in infrastructure settings, like IP address\noverloading, mobility, multihoming, and so forth. Therefore, when such architecture is implemented in ad hoc scenario the\nproblems get multiplied. Due to this fact, ad hoc networks suffer from additional problems like IP address autoconfiguration,\nservice provisioning, efficient bandwidth utilization, and node identification. In this paper we present IDHOCNET which is a novel\nimplementation of service provisioning and application development framework in the ad hoc context. We illustrate a number of\nimplemented features of the architecture which include IP address autoconfiguration, identification of nodes by using real world\nidentifiers, IP based services support in ad hoc networks, and a new class of application known as ID based application. Moreover\nhow identifiers can completely replace the IP addresses to run the IP based applications is shown. It is expected that this work will\nopen new research horizons and paradigms for ad hoc networks.
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