{"draft":"draft-ietf-manet-olsrv2-metrics-rationale-04","doc_id":"RFC7185","title":"Link Metrics for the Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) Routing Protocol OLSRv2 - Rationale","authors":["C. Dearlove","T. Clausen","P. Jacquet"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"25","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"Mobile Ad-hoc Networks","abstract":"The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2 (OLSRv2) includes\r\nthe ability to assign metrics to links and to use those metrics to\r\nallow routing by other than minimum hop count routes.  This document\r\nprovides a historic record of the rationale for, and design\r\nconsiderations behind, how link metrics were included in OLSRv2.","pub_date":"April 2014","keywords":["MANET","ad hoc network","proactive","NHDP","neighborhood discovery","OLSR","OLSRv2","routing protocol","metrics"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC7185","errata_url":null}