A Reliable and Efficient Broadcasting Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Kewang ZHANG  Deyun ZHANG 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E92-D  No.7  pp.1470-1474
Publication Date: 2009/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Networks
Keyword: 
mobile ad hoc networks,  media access control,  reliable broadcasting,  busy tone,  hidden terminal problem, 

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Summary: 
This letter proposes a busy-tone based scheme for reliable and efficient broadcasting in mobile ad hoc networks. Control packets such as RTS, CTS and ACK are ignored in the broadcast scheme, and two busy tones are used, one for channel reservation and the other for negative acknowledgement. Unlike traditional schemes for reliable broadcasting, the proposed scheme is highly efficient as it achieves both collision avoidance and fast packet loss recovery. Simulation results are presented which show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.