An Intelligent Multicast Ad-hoc On demand Distance Vector Protocol for MANETs

-Recently multicast routing protocols in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are emerging for wireless group communication. This includes application such as multipoint data dissemination and multiparty conferencing which made the analytical design and development of the MANETs in a very efficient manner. For MANETs there are several multicast routing protocols are available, but they perform well under specific scenarios only. The topology of a MANET changes adequately based on the random mobility of network nodes, unlike the network topology of a wired network which is static. Multicast routing protocol outperforms the basic broadcast routing by sharing the resources along general links, while sending information to a set of predefined multiple destinations in a concurrent way. Due to the lack of redundancy in multipath and multicast structures, the multicast routing protocols are vulnerable to the component failure in ad-hoc networks. So it is the dire need to solve the problem optimall...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: JNW
• Authors: E. Baburaj, V. Vasudevan
• Keywords: Ad-Hoc Networks, JNW 2008, Multicast Data Packets, Multicast Routing Protocols