Flooding for Data Delivery: Advantages
n Simplicity
n May be more efficient than other protocols when rate of
information transmission is low enough that the overhead
of explicit route discovery/maintenance incurred by other
protocols is relatively higher
this scenario may occur, for instance, when nodes transmit small
data packets relatively infrequently, and many topology changes
occur between consecutive packet transmissions
n Potentially higher reliability of data delivery
Because packets may be delivered to the destination on multiple
paths