IP Reuse on GPS Mapped MAC for Multi-Hop Mesh Network

We study the traffic overhead in TCP/IP network and propose the changes in IP address and MAC address for multi-hop mesh network. The proposed architecture describes routing protocol independent of subnet, hence omits the subnetting in the network architecture. The directional flooding (DF) is used in Wireless Mesh Networks with limited node mobility. The reduction in length of IP address and its reusability is discussed. The authors also focus on GPS mapped MAC address and its indexing. In the proposed approach, the IP address length is minimized by 6.25 percent and 53.125 percent in comparison IPv4- and IPv6-address respectively. In contrast, the length of proposed MAC address is 10 bytes for identifying the unique node globally.