Energy Efficient Multicast Routing Protocol for MANET with Minimum Control Overhead (EEMPMO)

Abstract

Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a dynamic, multi-hop and autonomous network composed of light wireless mobile nodes. Multicast has great importance in MANET due to their inherent broadcast capability. However, due to the dynamic topology of MANETs to build optimal multicast trees and maintaining group membership a lot many control messages required. These overhead consume the mobile node resources like power and network resources like wireless links bandwidth that creates hurdle in implementing energy assurance and reduced overhead multicast protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET). This paper presents an energy efficient multicast routing protocol for MANET with minimum control overhead. The protocol creates shared multicast tree using the physical location of the nodes for the multicast sessions. Protocol employs a distributed location service to obtain the physical location information of the nodes, which effectively reduces the overheads for route searching and shared multicast tree maintenance. The algorithm uses the concept of small overlapped zones around each node for proactive topology maintenance with in the zone. To search for an existing multicast tree outside the zone, constrained directional forwarding is used which guarantees a good reduction in overhead in comparison to network wide flooding for search process. In this paper local connectivity technique and preventive route reconfiguration on the basis of the current status of the nodes are being proposed that attempts to improve the performance and reliability in terms of reduced overhead, power and bandwidth requirement. These techniques also ensure good reduction in latency in case of link breakages and prevention of the network from splitting. General TermsTopological routing protocol, tree based multicast, mesh based multicast, shared-tree based multicast protocol, source-tree based multicast protocol.

A Brief Review on Parameters of Link Stability in MANETs

“…Abundant literature concludes that mobility factors like node velocity and direction and node degree to name a few influence link stabilities. Energy-efficient Multicast Routing Protocol MANET with Minimum Control Overhead (EEMPO) utilized the actual location of the nodes [42]. In another paper same authors propose Scalable Energy Efficient Location Aware Multicast Protocol (SEELAMP) which makes bidirectional shared tree as opposed to mesh, utilizing the position of the nodes [43].…”

E2S-AODV: An Energy Efficient Multipronged Reliable Strategy ensuring Secure and Scalable QoS over Disaster Response Applications

“…Authors compared Energy Efficient Multicast Routing Protocol for MANET with Minimum Control Overhead (EEMPMO) with MAODV minimized the problem of delay because of the directional diffused forwarding routing and also Network segmentation problems occur when a link error arises due to primary root failure. And as a result, the need for maintenance and reconstruction of tree was also minimized by backup roots [20].…”

Minimum Energy Broadcasting Problem in Wireless Sensor Network: A Review

“…In 2010, P. Kamboj, et al [22] proposed an energy efficient routing protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks with minimum control overhead during data transfer. In 2011, D. Li, et al [21] proposed approximation algorithms for solving multicast energy routing problem in WSN.…”