Jitter Consideration for Reactive Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)
LIX, Ecole Polytechnique
ICTEAM, Universite catholique de
LIX, Ecole Polytechnique
This document provides recommendations for jittering (randomly timing) of routing control message transmission, especially route request dissemination, in reactive protocols of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, to reduce the probability of collisions, decrease routing overhead, and help finding the optimum paths in the network.