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Although broadcasting using tree structure established in a network is a well known and widely used technique, it is typically claimed to be inappropriate for ad hoc networks, being the maintained tree very sensitive to network changes. On the contrary this paper presents an efficient tree based broadcasting scheme, which is reliable and stable even in case of the ever changing network structure of the ad hoc networks.
To achieve this, first, a novel method is presented to maintain a spanning tree in an ad hoc network in a fully distributed, on-line and asynchronous way. Once the tree is established the broadcast itself is performed based on this tree. Some further improvements on the basic algorithm are also presented that reduce the resource requirements even more, increase the stability of the tree, enable the mobility of the nodes to be taken into account and make the method more configurable.
As it is shown by simulation, the obtained broadcast scheme is stable, reliable and it uses small amount of resources: the acyclic structure of the broadcast tree ensures that the nodes get the broadcast messages only once, so the broadcast needs little bandwidth and the nodes need not store the recent broadcast messages, reducing the computational and memory requirements.
As a byproduct a technique is proposed to measure the mobility of the nodes. This technique needs no additional GPS device or any geographical information but it is based on the stability of the links of the node.
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Alpár Jüttner received his M. Sc. degree in 1998 at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, where he is currently working on his Ph. D. at Operational Research Departement. He also works as a research fellow at Ericsson Traffic Analysis and Network Performance Laboratory in Budapest, Hungary. His main interests are combinatorial optimization and its applications.
Ádám Magi received his M. Sc. degree in 1996 at the Technical University of Budapest in Electrical Engineering. He is currently working on his Ph. D. there. He also works as a research fellow at Ericsson Traffic Analysis and Network Performance Laboratory in Budapest, Hungary. His main interests are mobile ad hoc networks and routing in telecommunication networks.
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Jüttner, A., Magi, Á. Tree Based Broadcast in Ad Hoc Networks. Mobile Netw Appl 10, 753–762 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-005-3368-5
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