Efficient and Reliable Dissemination in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by Location Extrapolation

Data dissemination is an important service in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The main objective of this paper is to present a dissemination protocol, called locBcast, which utilizes positioning information to obtain efficient dissemination trees with low-control overhead. This paper includes an ex...

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Main Authors: Adnan Agbaria, Muhamad Hugerat, Roy Friedman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Computer Networks and Communications
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/680936
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Summary:Data dissemination is an important service in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The main objective of this paper is to present a dissemination protocol, called locBcast, which utilizes positioning information to obtain efficient dissemination trees with low-control overhead. This paper includes an extensive simulation study that compares locBast with selfP, dominantP, fooding, and a couple of probabilistic-/counter-based protocols. It is shown that locBcast behaves similar to or better than those protocols and is especially useful in the following challenging environments: the message sizes are large, the network is dense, and nodes are highly mobile.
ISSN:2090-7141
2090-715X