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Efficient receiver-based flooding in mobile ad hoc networks

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Flooding is one of the most important operations in mobile ad hoc networks. There are two strategies for existing flooding algorithms to make the forwarding decision. The first strategy is sender-based, where a forwarding node is in charge of determining its next-hop forwarding nodes. Existing sender-based algorithms can achieve linear computation overhead for each node, but this is at the expense of the transmission redundancy. The second strategy is receiver-based, where a node makes the forwarding decision of itself when it receives the flooding message. Receiver-based flooding algorithms perform well on reducing redundancy of transmissions, but each node requires at least \(O(n^2)\) computations, where n is its number of neighbors. In this paper, we show that a receiver-based algorithm can achieve both good performance and low computation overhead at the same time. We first introduce an efficient O(nlogn) algorithm, RBF. Second, two extensions of RBF, RBF-E1 and RBF-E2, were proposed. RBF-E1 has outstanding performance (1) in 3D wireless networks, and (2) when the defer time is short. RBF-E2 further reduces the computation overhead for each node to O(n). The proposed algorithms require only one-hop neighbor location information to make the forwarding decision. Extensive simulations are carried out to evaluate the performance of our algorithms.

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The corresponding author of this paper is Xiaohui Wei. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grants Nos. 61772228, 61702298, 61602205, 51627805, 61170004), National key research and development program of China (Grant Nos. 2017YFC1502306, 2016YFB0201503, 2016YFB0701101), Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20130061110052), Major Special Research Project of Science and Technology Department of Jilin Province (20160203008GX), Key Science and Technology Research Project of Science and Technology Department of Jilin Province (20140204013GX), Graduate Innovation Fund of Jilin University.

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  2. School of Software, Tsinghua University, No. 30, Shuangqing Street, Beijing, 100084, China

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Bai, X., Wei, X. & Bai, S. Efficient receiver-based flooding in mobile ad hoc networks. Wireless Netw 26, 17–31 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-018-1779-z

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