Affiliations: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Seconda
Università degli Studi di Napoli, Aversa (CE), Italy | Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli
Studi di Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy
Note: [] Corresponding author: Francesco Palmieri, Dipartimento di
Ingegneria dell'Informazione – Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via
Roma 29, I-81031 Aversa (CE), Italy. Tel.: +39 0815010510; Fax: +39 0815037042;
E-mail: mailto: francesco.palmieri@unina.it
Abstract: The provision of efficient broadcast containment schemes that can
dynamically cope with frequent topology changes and limited shared channel
bandwidth, is one of the most challenging research topics in MANETs, and is
crucial to the basic operations of networks serving fully mobile devices within
areas having no fixed communication infrastructure. This problem particularly
impacts the design of dynamic routing protocol that can efficiently establish
routes to deliver data packets among mobile nodes with minimum communication
overhead, and at the same time, ensure high throughput and low end-to-end
delay. Accordingly, this work exploits and analyzes an adaptive probabilistic
broadcast containment technique based on a particular condensation phenomenon
borrowed from Quantum Mechanics and transposed in self-organizing random
networks, that has the potential to effectively drive the on-demand route
discovery process. Simulation-based performance analysis has shown that the
proposed technique can introduce significant benefits on the general
performance of broadcast-based reactive routing protocols in MANETs.
