Reconciling the Theory and Practice of (Un)Reliable Wireless Broadcast

Theorists and practitioners have fairly different perspectives on how wireless broadcast works. Theorists think about synchrony; practitioners think about backoff. Theorists assume reliable communication; practitioners worry about collisions. The examples are endless. Our goal is to begin to reconcile the theory and practice of wireless broadcast, in the presence of failures. We propose new models for wireless broadcast and use them to examine what makes a broadcast model good. In the process, we pose some interesting questions that will help to bridge the gap.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICDCSW
• Authors: Gregory Chockler, Murat Demirbas, Seth Gilbert, Nancy A. Lynch, Calvin C. Newport, Tina Nolte
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICDCSW 2005, Reliable Communication, Wireless Broadcast, Wireless Broadcast Works