Network Coding-Aware Neighbor Based Topology Control in MANETs

In Mobile Ad-Hoc networks, broadcasting is a fundamental operation in the network layer, where a node rebroadcasts a message to all other nodes whenever it receives the message for the first time. It will cause many redundant transmissions and it will develop a serious problem called ´Broadcast Storm problem´. In recent times, researchers have designed 2-Hop Neighbour based protocol like DP, TDP, PDP to reduce broad cast storm problem in MANETs by selecting the minimum number of forwarding nodes from 1-Hop nodes to cover all 2-Hop nodes. Newly the researchers are adapting Network Coding to reduce the number of transmissions in broadcasting. In this paper, we impose Network Coding in the existing TDP protocol. We have made an attempt to find the network coding gain in the high and low load situations.