Dynamic scheduling for cooperative broadcasting in tactical ad hoc networks
Jimmi Grönkvist, Arwid Komulainen, Ulf Sterner, Ulrika Uppman · 2016
In military mobile ad hoc networks, many applications generate broadcast traffic. Examples of such applications include situation awareness and order dissemination. These types of applications typically require robust packet delivery and limited delays. Cooperative broadcasting is a promising technique to handle such requirements for broadcast traffic, especially in highly mobile networks. In this paper we propose an algorithm for dynamically assigning transmission rights in a cooperative broadcast framework. The performance of the proposed algorithm is verified for a demanding traffic model using network simulations, in which the algorithm is compared to an algorithm without traffic adaptivity. The results show that the algorithm successfully handles demanding broadcast traffic scenarios with high capacity even under high mobility and in sparse networks.