This project addresses the problem of energy-efficient data dissemination from a source node to all other nodes in a wireless multi-hop network. Mahdi Mousavi et al. from the Communications Engineering Lab at TU Darmstadt have devised a decentralized algorithm towards this goal that is based on game theory [1]. While simulation results have shown that this mechanism significantly outperforms other conventional flooding mechanisms, its practical applicability still remains unexplored.

The goal of this thesis project is to design a protocol that takes the practical limitations of wireless multi-hop networks into account. The protocol shall be evaluated in simulations using the ns-3 network simulator.

[1] Mahdi Mousavi, Hussein Al-Shatri, Matthias Wichtlhuber, David Hausheer and Anja Klein, “Energy-Efficient Data Dissemination in Ad Hoc Networks: Mechanism Design with Potential Game”, 2015 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Brussels, 2015, pp. 616-620. doi: 10.1109/ISWCS.2015.7454421