Title :
GeoTORA: a protocol for geocasting in mobile ad hoc networks
Author :
Ko, Young-Bae ; Vaidya, Nitin H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA
Abstract :
This paper considers the problem of providing a geocast service in mobile ad hoc networks and presents a novel geocasting algorithm combining unicasting and flooding. Geocast is useful for sending messages to everyone in a specified geographical region. The proposed protocol is named GeoTORA, because it is derived from the TORA (unicast) routing protocol. Flooding is also incorporated in GeoTORA, but it is limited to nodes within a small region. This integration of TORA and flooding can significantly reduce the overhead of geocast delivery while maintaining reasonably high accuracy
Keywords :
land mobile radio; packet radio networks; protocols; telecommunication network routing; GeoTORA; TORA routing protocol; flooding; geocasting; mobile ad hoc networks; overhead; protocol; specified geographical region; unicasting; Casting; Computer science; Floods; Global Positioning System; Intelligent networks; Internet; Mobile ad hoc networks; Region 8; Routing protocols; Unicast;
Conference_Titel :
Network Protocols, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Osaka
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0921-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICNP.2000.896308
