F. Impact of Parameter Reconfigurations
The adaptation engine support the reconfiguration of local
dissemination strategies. Figure 9 shows the comparison between
the hybrid probabilistic scheme without reconfigurations
and the scheme with reconfigurations enabled. As detailed
in Section III, the probabilistic scheme can be reconfigured
by altering the value for the parameter p. Based on the
current node density as observed by the adaptation engine,
p is decreased for denser scenarios to lower the probability of
collisions. As a result, the upload traffic saturates at around
25 kbit/s compared to up to 50 kbit/s in case of disabled
reconfigurations. The impact on the observed dissemination
delay (Figure 9a) is negligible, as it stays well below 100 ms
for both configurations.