A Spontaneous Wireless Ad Hoc Trusted Neighbor Network Creation Protocol

Table 2

Qualitative comparison of the reference protocol and our proposal.

	[17]	Proposal
Number of phases	3	2
Mobile network	No	No
Randomized	No	Yes
Slotted time	No	Yes
known	Yes	No
Requires synchronization	Yes	Yes
Requires a transmission schedule	Yes	No
Transmitting or listening (but not simultaneously)	Yes	Yes
One-hop	Yes	Yes
Multi-hop	Yes	Yes
Sleep available	No	No
Collisions considered	No	Yes
Collision loose transmission	Yes	Yes
Packet loss detection	No	No
Collision detection	No	Yes
Termination detection	No	Yes
Start transmission at different time instants	No	No
Uses hash checking	Yes	No
Uses signature checking	No	Yes
Discovers all neighbors	Yes	Yes
Succeeds at exchanging identity cards	Yes	Yes
Discovers all trusted neighbors	Yes	Yes