Hybrid Flooding Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Reina, D.G. ; Toral, S.L. ; Jonhson, P. ; Barrero, F.

Volume

17

Issue

3

fYear

2013

fDate

Mar-13

Firstpage

592

Lastpage

595

Abstract

A hybrid broadcast scheme for mobile wireless networks is proposed in this letter. The main objective is to combine different flooding schemes in order to solve the broadcast storm issue encountered by the simple flooding scheme. For this purpose, the density of nodes is taken into account using a density metric called expansion metric. In addition, in order to reduce the broken links due to mobility of nodes and increasing dissimilarity among the intermediate nodes, a forwarding zone criterion is included in the proposed schemes. The proposed approaches have been implemented and compared with pure probabilistic flooding, and simple flooding schemes.

Keywords

mobile ad hoc networks; mobility management (mobile radio); radio links; routing protocols; MANET; broadcast storm issue; broken link reduction; density metric; expansion metric; forwarding zone criterion; hybrid broadcast scheme; hybrid flooding scheme; intermediate node dissimilarity; mobile ad hoc networks; mobile wireless networks; node density; node mobility; Measurement; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Probabilistic logic; Wireless sensor networks; Flooding; MANETs; WSNs; density;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2013.012213.121505

Filename

6423765