Title :
On the reduction of broadcast redundancy in mobile ad hoc networks
Author :
Peng, Wei ; Lu, Xi-Cheng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Changsha Inst. of Technol., Hunan, China
Abstract :
Flooding in mobile ad hoc networks has poor scalability as it leads to serious redundancy, contention and collision. We propose an efficient approach to reduce the broadcast redundancy. In our approach, local topology information and the statistical information about the duplicate broadcasts are utilized to avoid unnecessary rebroadcasts. Simulation is conducted to compare the performance of our approach and flooding. The simulation results demonstrate the advantages of our approach. It can greatly reduce the redundant messages, thus saving much network bandwidth and energy. It can also enhance the reliability of broadcasting. It can be used in static or mobile wireless networks to implement scalable broadcast or multicast communications
Keywords :
land mobile radio; network topology; radio broadcasting; radio networks; telecommunication network reliability; broadcast algorithm; broadcast redundancy reduction; broadcasting reliability; collision; contention; duplicate broadcasts; energy saving; local topology information; mobile ad hoc networks; mobile wireless networks; multicast communications; network bandwidth saving; network flooding; performance; redundant messages; scalable broadcast; simulation results; statistical information; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Floods; Mobile ad hoc networks; Multicast communication; Network topology; Redundancy; Scalability; Telecommunication network reliability; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile and Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 2000. MobiHOC. 2000 First Annual Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6534-8
DOI :
10.1109/MOBHOC.2000.869221