Main idea: Limit amount of broadcast traffic
Packets:
- Route Request (RREQ)
- Route Response (RREP)
- Data Packet (DATA)
Nodes:
- reactive
- intermediate nodes do not send route replies
- only broadcast packets are for Route Request
- only send/forward broadcasts as
- maximum of x percent of the total traffic rate
- minimum of y packets per second
- dynamic route timeout is the time the node has been online
- plus a hard-coded global min/max timeout
- route over layer-2 a preferred over layer-3
- assumption is that layer-3 is over cable, layer-2 over WLAN