Re: [manet] Selective Acknowledgement

[Justin Lipman <justin@titr.uow.edu.au>]

Hi Joan,

I have a paper currently under review which addresses just this issue when 
performing flooding in ad hoc networks. I can send you the tech-report, if 
you are interested.

regards,
Justin

-- 
Research Associate
Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre
http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/~justin

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:19 pm, joan.martin@philips.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know any literature about selective acknowledgement applied
> to manet (802.11). Concretely, selective acknowledge in response to a
> broadcast transmission.
>
> The IEEE 802.11 MAC specification does not allow acknowledging on
> receiving a broadcast transmission. Therefore how could I design a
> mechanism which ensures me that at least one neighboring node has received
> the broadcast message (imagine a critical application, e.g. car accident
> warning, in which you cannot permit a broadcast message "to be lost on the
> air")
>
> Best regards,
> Joan




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