• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.2019-2031
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• 2011

Recently USN has been widely used and a lot of research issues have been focused on network configuration. The SOS system is one of the USN applications. The SOS system inherently uses broadcasting due to its emergency. However, a naive broadcasting may cause a significant problem called broadcasting storm. This paper introduces a new trust concept into USN and proposes a new broadcasting algorithm solving the broadcast storm problem.