Advantages and Disadvantages
Each packet is retransmitted a minimal number of times, and covers the longest possible distance on each transmission. Some time is wasted by having the receiver broadcast packet information, but this is far less than the normal routing schemes, which can retransmit when an acknowledge message is lost.
There are no acknowledge packets, and no collisions with them. This saves radio time.
The authors say that the protocol is roughly twice as efficient as normal routing protocols with fixed "optimal" routing. (See "testing", below for methods used to determine this).
The authors say that the variation in delivery times is 1/4 of other ad-hoc networks, and ascribe this to the algorithm's use of best available delivery times.
The authors arranged the test so that the protocol accumulates large blocks of data for transmission. The data shows a trade-off between the speed of the network's response and the efficiency of the radio system.
Response time in some games might be affected by larger amounts of buffering in high efficiency networks.
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