Efficient modeling of network flooding performance with proactive retransmissions in mobile ad hoc networks

Network flooding is the key mechanism designed to reach mobile nodes and disseminate the information in MANETs. Increasing the number of floods is a good way to improve coverage, namely, the fraction of nodes that receive the flooding message. However, this also will increase the overhead and hence the interference. In this paper, we used two different methods of refloods/retransmissions; originator-based retransmissions, where the originator of...