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Analysis of Probabilistic Flooding: How do we Choose the Right Coin?

Crisóstomo, S. ; Schilcher, U. S. ; Barros, J. ; Bettstetter, C. Bettstetter

Analysis of Probabilistic Flooding: How do we Choose the Right Coin?, Proc IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC , Dresden, Germany, Vol. -, pp. 2080 - 2085, June, 2009.

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICC.2009.5198745

 

Abstract
This paper studies probabilistic information dissemination in random networks. Consider the following scenario: A node intends to deliver a message to all other nodes in the network (''flooding''). It first transmits the message to all its neighboring nodes. Each node forwards a received message with some network-wide probability pf. A natural question arises: which forwarding probability pf should each node use such that a flooded message is obtained by all nodes with high probability? In other words, what is the minimum pf to achieve a high global outreach probability? We first present a generic approach to estimate the probability for achieving global outreach. This approach is then employed in Erdos Renyi random graphs, where we derive an upper and a lower bound for the global outreach probability for given random network and flooding parameters. The analysis is complemented with simulation results showing the tightness of both bounds. As a final result, we take a system design perspective to show a number of parameter vectors leading to global outreach.