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Design and Evaluation of an Efficient Reliable Manycast protocol for Ad-hoc Networks

Lookup NU author(s): Einar Vollset, Dr Paul EzhilchelvanORCiD

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Abstract

The protocol presented here guarantees that at least a specified number, k, of destinations receive a given message. The guarantees are deterministic and the failure probability is zero. Such a strong delivery assurance provides a more powerful primitive than protocols which attempt to minimise failure probability, and is useful for meeting many user-level requirements. Simulations under a wide range of settings confirm that the overhead is low even k is high, and that the protocol is scalable. These desirable performance results are due to many design features, in particular, the decentralised delivery management whereby any node - manycast initiator or destination- can take responsibility in a cost-effective manner for achieving the specified delivery ratio. The goal of attaining total reliability is comprehensively addressed: the design considers even the rare, but not impossible, scenarios of the network behaving as an adversary.


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Author(s): Vollset E, Ezhilchelvan PD

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 2004

Pages: 15

Source Publication Date: 01-04-2004

Report Number: 838

Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/research/pubs/trs/papers/838.pdf


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