International Journal of Computing Science and Information Technology (IJCSIT)
Flooding algorithm is an algorithm for sending data to all the nodes in the network. Each node turns as both sender and receiver. Flooding is used in peer-to-peer file sharing and in ad-hoc wireless networks. Flooding generates redundancy, so, to avoid this, spanning tree system is to be used. Spanning tree system is a mechanism through which it creates loop free tree topology. In a clustered network if any node fails, the other node takes ownership. This happens because of a layer of cluster software runs on the cluster nodes.