A Novel Broadcast Scheme DSR-based Mobile Adhoc Networks

Traffic classification seeks to assign packet flows to an appropriate quality of service (QoS). Despite many studies that have placed a lot of emphasis on broadcast communication, broadcasting in MANETs is still a problematic issue. Due to the absence of the fixed infrastructure in MANETs, broadcast is an essential operation for all network nodes. Although the blind flooding is the simplest broadcasting technique, it is inefficient and lacks resource utilization efficiency. One of the proposed schemes to mitigate the blind flooding deficiency is the counter based broadcast scheme that depends on the number of received duplicate packets between the node and its neighbors, where the node compares the duplicate packet itself and each neighbor node that previously re-broadcasted a packet. Due to the fact that existing counter-based schemes are mainly based on the fixed counter based approach, these schemes are not efficient in different operating conditions. Thus, unlike existing studies, this paper proposes a dynamic counter based threshold value and examines its effectiveness under the Dynamic Source Routing Protocol (DSR) which is one of the well-known on-demand routing protocols. Specifically, we develop in this paper a new counter based broadcast algorithm under the umbrella of the DSR, namely, Inspired Counter Based Broadcasting (DSR-ICB). Using various simulation experiments, DSR-ICB has shown good performance especially in terms of delay and the number of redundant packets.