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Flooding is commonly used both for conventional ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks. Most of previous works on developing efficient flooding protocols are focused on making an optimal broadcast tree, with an implicit assumption that all nodes should be reachable from the source. However, this aim as well as the implied assumption may no longer be true because flooding protocols in wireless sensor networks are used to deliver the data packets towards a single or only subset of destination node(s). In this paper, we propose a new flooding protocol for utilizing directional information to achieve the efficiency in data delivery. The proposed directional flooding can lead flooded packets to flow in the ”right direction” towards their destinations, hence eliminating unnecessary packet forwarding and reducing the total energy consumption. Our simulation results show the average number of transmitted packets can be significantly reduced over the existing flooding algorithms, in which possibly all nodes are participated in a flooding process.
This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation (KRF-2003-003-D00375).
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Ko, YB., Choi, JM., Kim, JH. (2004). A New Directional Flooding Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Kahng, HK., Goto, S. (eds) Information Networking. Networking Technologies for Broadband and Mobile Networks. ICOIN 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3090. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25978-7_10
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