TY - GEN
T1 - Improving the performance of counter-based broadcast scheme for mobile ad hoc networks
AU - Mohammed, A.
AU - Ould-Khaoua, M.
AU - Mackenzie, L. M.
AU - Abdulai, J.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Flooding is the simplest and most commonly used mechanism for broadcasting in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), where each node retransmits every uniquely received message exactly once. Despite its simplicity, it can result in high redundancy, contention and collision, a phenomenon referred to as the broadcast storm problem. In this paper, we propose an enhanced counter-based scheme to mitigate this problem by incorporating probability concept into counter-based scheme. We evaluate the performance of our scheme by comparing it with flooding, fixed probability and counter-based scheme. The simulation results reveal that the new scheme achieves superior performance in terms of both saved rebroadcast and end to end delay, and reachability comparable to flooding in medium and dense networks.
AB - Flooding is the simplest and most commonly used mechanism for broadcasting in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), where each node retransmits every uniquely received message exactly once. Despite its simplicity, it can result in high redundancy, contention and collision, a phenomenon referred to as the broadcast storm problem. In this paper, we propose an enhanced counter-based scheme to mitigate this problem by incorporating probability concept into counter-based scheme. We evaluate the performance of our scheme by comparing it with flooding, fixed probability and counter-based scheme. The simulation results reveal that the new scheme achieves superior performance in terms of both saved rebroadcast and end to end delay, and reachability comparable to flooding in medium and dense networks.
KW - Broadcast storm problem
KW - Flooding
KW - MANETs
KW - Reachability
KW - Saved rebroadcast
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSPC.2007.4728591
DO - 10.1109/ICSPC.2007.4728591
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:60349125349
SN - 9781424412365
T3 - ICSPC 2007 Proceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications
SP - 1403
EP - 1406
BT - ICSPC 2007 Proceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications
T2 - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, ICSPC 2007
Y2 - 14 November 2007 through 27 November 2007
ER -