Affiliations: Mobile Computing, Networks and Security Research
Group, School of in formatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK.
E-mail: {a.m.o.hanashi,i.u.awan,m.e.woodward}@bradford.ac.uk
Abstract: Broadcasting is an essential and effective data propagation
mechanism, with several of important applications such as route discovery,
address resolution, as well as many other network services. As data
broadcasting has many advantages, also causing a lot of contention, collision,
and congestion, which induces what is known as "broadcast storm problems".
Broadcasting has traditionally been based on the flooding protocol, which
simply overflows the network with high number of rebroadcast messages until the
messages reach to all network nodes. A good probabilistic broadcasting protocol
can achieve higher saved rebroadcast, low collisions and less number of relays.
In this paper, we propose a dynamic probabilistic approach that dynamically
fine-tunes the rebroadcasting probability according to the number of
neighbour's nodes distributed in the ad hoc network for routing request packets
(RREQs). The performance of the proposed approach is investigated and compared
with the simple AODVand fixed probabilistic schemes using the GloMoSim network
simulator under different mobility models. The performance results reveal that
the improved approach is able to achieve higher saved rebroadcast and low
collision as well as low number of relays than the fixed probabilistic scheme
and simple AODV.
