ABSTRACT
The broadcast operation, as a fundamental service in mobile adhoc networks (MANETs), is prone to the broadcast storm
problem if forwarding nodes are not carefully designated. The objective of reducing broadcast redundancy while
providing high delivery ratio under high transmission error rate is a major challenge in MANETs. This paper proposes a
simple broadcast algorithm, called enhanced double-covered broadcast (EDCB), which takes advantage of broadcast
redundancy to improve the delivery ratio in an environment that has rather high transmission error rate.
Keywords: Reliability, enhanced double coverage, MANETS, Performance evaluation, forwarding node