Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) open an interdisciplinary area within Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) research, with a tremendous impact in healthcare area where sensors are used to monitor, collect and transmit biological parameters of the human body. We propose the €rst network-MAC cross-layer broadcast protocol in WBAN. Our protocol, evaluated in the OMNET++ simulator enriched with realist...

We study asynchronous broadcasting in packet radio networks. A radio network is represented by a directed graph, in which one distinguished source node stores a message that needs to be disseminated among all the remaining nodes. An asynchronous execution of a protocol is a sequence of events, each consisting of simultaneous deliveries of messages. The correctness of protocols is considered for...

Broadcast and broadband communications have undoubt- edly become a part of today’s social life. Accessibility of content of interest to the audience at any place and at any time regardless of the type of content consumer device can have an effective contribution to the desire of the audience to use of the broadcast content. The HD and Ultra HD qualities, the desire for demand-driven application...

Broadcast and broadband communications have undoubt- edly become a part of today’s social life. Accessibility of content of interest to the audience at any place and at any time regardless of the type of content consumer device can have an effective contribution to the desire of the audience to use of the broadcast content. The HD and Ultra HD qualities, the desire for demand-driven application...

In wireless sensor networks for monitoring and control applications, a sink node needs to disseminate messages to all nodes to acquire monitoring data or to control the operation of sensor nodes. The basic flooding protocol suffers from low transmission reliability in broadcasting messages due to the hidden terminal problem. Besides, it can cause the broadcast storm problem by having many nodes...

Broadcasting is one of the most important operations in the wireless network for disseminating information throughout the entire network. Flooding is a simple mechanism to realize broadcasting, but it has high redundancy of retransmissions, leading to low transmission efficiency. Many broadcast protocols have been proposed for pursuing optimized transmission efficiency for wireless networks hyp...

Wireless technologies are promising for industrial automation and distributed control due to the properties of mobility, reduced deployment and maintenance costs, and so on. By the technologies, wireless networks are formed for integrating processes and devices of industrial systems. Broadcasting is one of the most important operations in the wireless network for disseminating information throu...

This paper presents a simple and robust dissemination protocol that efficiently deals with data dissemination in both dense and sparse vehicular networks. Our goal is to address highway scenarios where vehicles equipped with sensors detect an event, e.g., a hazard and broadcast an event message to a specific direction of interest. In order to deal with broadcast communication under diverse netw...

In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), for a large number of applications, the destination of relevant information such as alerts is the whole set of vehicles located inside a given area. Therefore dissemination with efficient broadcast is an essential communication primitive. One of the families of broadcast protocols suitable for such networks is the family of delay-based broadcast protocols,...

In duty-cycled wireless sensor networks, deployed sensor nodes are usually put to sleep for energy efficiency according to sleep scheduling approaches. Any sleep scheduling scheme with its supporting protocols ensures that data can always be routed from source to sink. In this paper, we investigate a problem of multi-hop broadcast and routing in random sleep scheduling scheme, and propose a nov...