Poster: A Cell Biology Inspired Model for Controlling Redundant Rebroadcasts in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Abstract

Dense MANETs should be designed to be as stateless as possible and the nodes should not keep global network-wide states. Blind rebroadcasting agrees with this requirement but it causes broadcast storm problem. We propose a protocol consisting of (i) storm control and (ii) flood control mechanisms to operate as a link layer protocol to carry unicast data in multihop manner. Our protocol startes with blind rebroadcasting and controls redundant rebroadcasts through a method inspired by chalone mechanism found in biological cell proliferation control in organ growth.