Flooding Schemes for Clustered Ad Hoc Networks

Kenichi MASE
Yoshiyuki WADA
Nobuhito MORI
Keisuke NAKANO
Masakazu SENGOKU

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E85-B    No.3    pp.605-613
Publication Date: 2002/03/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Terrestrial Radio Communications
Keyword: 
ad hoc network,  flooding,  clustering,  gateway selection,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents novel flooding schemes for wireless mobile ad hoc networks. Clustering of nodes is assumed as a basic ad hoc network structure. GWF (Gateway Forwarding) and SGF (Selected Gateway Forwarding) are presented based on clustering. A new protocol, termed FGS (Flooding Gateway Selection) protocol, between a cluster head and its gateways to realize SGF is presented. It is shown that SGF significantly improves the packet delivery performance in ad hoc networks by reducing flooding traffic.