Load-aware Flooding over Ad Hoc Networks enabling High Message Reachability and Traffic Reduction

There is a high demand for the delivery of high bitrate streaming media such as video or audio information to all nodes on ad hoc networks. To achieve streaming delivery effectively, we have proposed two novel load-aware flooding methods in which a node decides whether to rebroadcast or not based on information on the MAC transmission queue at the node. Since nodes in ad hoc networks are usually battery powered, reducing power consumption is a highly important issue. In this study, we compare the message reachability and the volume of message transmission/reception of our proposal with conventional simple flooding. The results show that our proposed method can reduce traffic and power consumption.