Route discovery in wireless mobile ad hoc networks with adjusted probabilistic flooding

Jamal Deen Abdulai, Aminu Mohammed, Kaku Sagary Nokoe, Ekanah Oyetunji

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Abstract

Message flooding has been extensively used in wireless mobile ad hoc networks for activities such as route and resource discovery. This can potentially lead to high channel contention, causing redundant retransmissions and thus excessive packet collisions in the network. Such a phenomenon has been shown to greatly increase the network communication overhead and end-to-end delay. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic method of flooding that adjusts the forwarding probability at a node using its local topological characteristics. Our simulation analysis reveals that equipping a routing protocol with the proposed adjusted probabilistic flooding for route discovery can result in a significant reduction of routing control overhead while achieving good throughput.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICAST 2009 - 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology
Pages99-109
Number of pages11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology, ICAST 2009 - Accra
Duration: 14 Dec 200916 Dec 2009

Publication series

NameICAST 2009 - 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology, ICAST 2009
Country/TerritoryGhana
CityAccra
Period14/12/0916/12/09

Keywords

  • Collision
  • Flooding
  • Forwarding probability
  • MANETs
  • Network connectivity success ratio
  • Reactive routing
  • Routing overhead
  • Simulation

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