Recovery from multiple simultaneous failures in wireless sensor networks using minimum Steiner tree.docVIP

wireless ad hoc networks, due to the dynamic topology changes, multi hop communications and strict resource limitations, routing becomes the most challenging issue, and broadcasting is a common approach which is used to alleviate the routing problem. Global flooding is a straightforward broadcasting method which is used in almost all existing topology-based routing protocols and suffers from the notorious broadcast storm problem. The connected dominating set (CDS) formation is a promising approach for reducing the broadcast routing overhead in which the messages are forwarded along the virtual