An efficient broadcasting scheme for military operations using directional antennas

Ahmed Karam, Liren Zhang, Abderrahmane Lakas

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Abstract

Most of the existing broadcasting schemes either rely on GPS location or topology information or angle-of-arrival (AoA) calculation or combination of some or all to achieve high reachability. However, these schemes cannot be directly used in battlefield environment due to lack of node location and topology information both of which caused by electronic warfare and random burst mode of communication. This paper proposes an efficient broadcast relaying scheme called Random Directional Broadcasting Relay (RDBR) scheme that greatly reduces the number of forwarding nodes and end-to-end delay while achieving high reachability in medium to high density environments. This is done by selecting a subset of neighboring nodes to relay the packet using directional antennas without relying on node location, network topology and complex angle-ofarrival (AoA) calculations. We evaluate the performance of our proposed RDBR scheme by comparing it against Flooding and Distance-based schemes. Simulation results show that our proposed RDBR scheme achieves high reachability while reducing both end-to-end delay and the number of retransmitting nodes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, ICCVE 2015 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages19-25
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781509002641
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 4 2016
EventInternational Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, ICCVE 2015 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: Oct 19 2015Oct 23 2015

Publication series

Name2015 International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, ICCVE 2015 - Proceedings

Other

OtherInternational Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, ICCVE 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period10/19/1510/23/15

Keywords

  • Ad hoc
  • Broadcasting
  • MANET
  • Performance metrics
  • Relay

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Automotive Engineering
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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