Experimental Comparison of Pure Flooding and Its Variants on Raspberry Pi in Small Scale Ad Hoc Networks

Because of dynamic topology in ad hoc networks, many routing protocols as well as service discovery protocols are mainly dependent on flooding algorithms. However, despite of its great role of flooding algorithm in wireless ad hoc networks, experimental study for small scale ad hoc networks has not been explored well yet. To solve this problem, in this paper, we implement the several flooding algorithms on Raspberry Pi and evaluate the performance of them. We present the details of the implementation and packet delivery ratio ratio where small scale ad hoc networks are deployed.