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Wireless Channel State-Aware and Adaptive Epidemic Dissemination in Ad Hoc Networks

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Ad hoc networks are characterized by limited resources (e.g. energy, bandwidth). Efficient information dissemination while avoiding excessive energy cost can be achieved through the suitable design of a network. To this end we propose an information dissemination scheme which couples epidemic dissemination with adaptive modulation and coding (AMC). The proposed scheme tunes the message forwarding probability and the coding and modulation mode in order to achieve a balance between maximum coverage over the network and minimum energy expenditure. We achieve this based on the evaluation of suitably defined indicators related to the lower network layers and exploiting information on the current status of the wireless medium. Building on established previous AMC-related work, our simulation results indicate that our scheme brings significant improvement over non-adaptive approaches, comparable with other adaptive epidemic dissemination schemes. Our findings are quite promising for adaptive epidemic-based information dissemination schemes with a strong cross-layer component.

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  1. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Theofanis Kontos & Stathes Hadjiefthymiades

  2. Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

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Kontos, T., Anagnostopoulos, C. & Hadjiefthymiades, S. Wireless Channel State-Aware and Adaptive Epidemic Dissemination in Ad Hoc Networks. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 21, 58–67 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-013-0232-6

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