Authors : B. Sundaravadivazhagan and P. Jaganathan
Abstract: Broadcast is a basic operation for communication by forwarding a message from a node to all other nodes in a Mobile Ad-Hoc network. A broadcast storm occurs while a network is saturated with a huge amount of broadcast traffic. The broadcast storm results in a contention and collision in a high dense network. Hence, this study proposes a link state based route discovery approach to reduce the number of broadcast chain. A probability value is assigned to each link according to the information tracked at unit time interval and based on that value the link can be selected for further broadcast. Hence, the number of broadcasts is minimized by checking the link state information to reconnect the previous nodes. The proposed approach is compared with the existing broadcast strategy approaches and the performance is measured in terms of broadcast ratio, rebroadcast, success rate and number of forwarding nodes. The experimental results show that the proposed approach performs better than the previous approaches.
B. Sundaravadivazhagan and P. Jaganathan, 2016. A Link State Based Route Discovery for Probabilistic Broadcast Approach to Reduce Broadcast Storm Problem in Manet. Asian Journal of Information Technology, 15: 255-262.