{
  "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": [
    "TEXT",
    "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 the ability to assign metrics to links and to use those metrics to allow routing by other than minimum hop count routes.  This document provides a historic record of the rationale for, and design considerations 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
}