The MANET is a special type of wireless mobile network in which mobile hosts can communicate without any aid of established infrastructure. Broadcast or flooding is a dissemination technique of paramount importance in mobile ad-hoc networks. MANETs are generating lots of interest due to their dynamic topology and decentralized administration. Due to the mobility of nodes there are many problem ...

Wireless mesh network has recently received a great deal of attention as a promising technology to provide ubiquitous high bandwidth access for a large number of users. Such network may face a significant broadcast traffic that may consequently degrade the network reliability. In this paper, we have focused interest to wireless mesh network based IEEE 802.11s and we have designed a self-pruning...

The broadcast throughput in a network is defined as the average number of messages that can be transmitted per unit time from a given source to all other nodes when time goes to infinity. Classical broadcast algorithms treat messages as atomic tokens and route them from the source to the receivers by making intermediate nodes store and forward messages. The more recent network coding approach, ...

MaNet has emerged as one of the most focused and thrust research areas in the field of wireless networks and mobile computing. In ad hoc mobile networks, routes are mainly multi hop because of the limited radio propagation range and topology changes frequently and unpredictably since each network host moves randomly. Therefore, routing is an integral part of ad hoc communications. Many routing ...

In wireless ad hoc networks, due to the dynamic topology changes, multi hop communications and strict resource limitations, routing becomes the most challenging issue, and broadcasting is a common approach which is used to alleviate the routing problem. Global flooding is a straightforward broadcasting method which is used in almost all existing topology-based routing protocols and suffers from...

Several routing algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks have been proposed in the recent past [Broch et al., The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Internet Draft draft-ietf-manet-dsr-03.txt, October 1999; Perkins et al., Ad Hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing, Internet Draft draft-ietf-manet-aodv04.txt, October 1999; Haas and Pearlman, The Zone Routing Protocol ...

In wired networks, the broadcast data packets can be easily and safely delivered to destinations. Nevertheless, it is a big challenge to transfer the broadcast frames over the IEEE 802.11 based multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks due to the high bit error rate, the high collision probability, and the lake of acknowledgement (ACK). Unfortunately, most of routing protocols need the broadcast funct...

Recent trends in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have suggested converging to such being IPv6-based. To this effect, the Internet Engineering Task Force has chartered a Working Group to develop a routing protocol specification, enabling IPv6-based multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks. This routing protocol, denoted “IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks” (RPL), has been under dev...

We answer the following questions for routing in wireless sensor networks: 1) should broadcast beacon or data serve as the basis of link estimation? 2) how to use MAC feedback in data-driven link estimation and routing? 3) how to address the issue of biased link sampling in data-driven link estimation and routing.

Efficient routing mechanism is a challenging issue for group oriented computing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The ability of MANETs to support adequate Quality of Service (QoS) for group communication is limited by the ability of the underlying ad-hoc routing protocols to provide consistent behavior despite the dynamic properties of mobile computing devices. In MANET QoS requirements can ...