Limited Flooding Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Overview

Mobile ad hoc networks are collections of mobile nodes without any fixed infrastructure or central co-ordinating mechanism for packet routing. Consequently, routing is a challenge. This paper proposes a multipath routing protocol called Limited Flooding. The protocol is fully reactive and does not entail the computation of routing tables. It uses the basic features of flooding but restricts packet propagation by selecting a limited number of links. Discrete-event simulation is used to model ad hoc networks, and the performance of several variations of the protocol is evaluated.