3rd International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems

Research Article

Retransmission and Backoff Strategies for Broadcasting in Multi-hop Wireless Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374396,
        author={Jesus Arango and Alon Efrat and Srinivasan Ramasubramanian and Marwan Krunz and Stephen Pink},
        title={Retransmission and Backoff Strategies for Broadcasting in Multi-hop Wireless Networks},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2006},
        month={10},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374396}
    }
    
  • Jesus Arango
    Alon Efrat
    Srinivasan Ramasubramanian
    Marwan Krunz
    Stephen Pink
    Year: 2006
    Retransmission and Backoff Strategies for Broadcasting in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374396
Jesus Arango1, Alon Efrat1, Srinivasan Ramasubramanian2, Marwan Krunz2, Stephen Pink3
  • 1: Computer Science Department, University of Arizona
  • 2: Electronical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona
  • 3: Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK

Abstract

This work proposes new retransmission and backoff strategies for network-wide broadcasting in multi-hop wireless networks. A comparative analysis is presented between existing algorithms as well as the ones proposed herein. Simulation experiments and analysis are used throughout this work to study or demonstrate the properties and performance of specific strategies as well as other properties or results of a more general nature. Several topics not considered in previous work are also studied. The broadcasting strategies are evaluated with respect to their impact on routing protocols that rely on flooding to perform path discovery, and research is conducted in designing schemes that maximize the route lifetime. Different backoff strategies are proposed and their performance is examined.