Re: [manet] Comments on "Problem Statement for OSPF Extensions ..." draft

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

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 03:08 am, Charles E.Perkins wrote:
> I thought that the _only_ reason for even considering
> reliable flooding was because that was what OSPF already
> did.

Charles,

What is your definition of "reliable" flooding?

Blind flooding can be seen as reliable and my own work shows it performs very 
well (if one ignores the broadcast storm). Sadly, MPR and other optimised 
flooding algorithms do not perform well at all!

Kind regards,
Justin

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

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