Backbone-based broadcast schemes are effective in alleviating the broadcast storm problem in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). However, periodically hello packets used to maintain a backbone usually lead to extra control overhead. In this paper, passive tree-based backbone construction scheme (PTBCS) is proposed as a backbone construction scheme for MANETs. Different from other schemes, each nod...

Optimal routing decisions are key in communication network environments to minimize bottlenecks such as traffic congestion and limited bandwidth. Routing wireless mesh backbone networks is the focus of this study given that they popular particularly for providing broadband connectivity a huge number users accessing transmitting multimedia data hence susceptible communication-oriented bottleneck...