Level-based on-demand multicast routing protocol for mobile Ad Hoc networks

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are a type of wireless network that has no fixed infrastructure and wireless nodes move arbitrarily. The MANETs are helpful in situations such as emergency search and rescue operations, battlefields, exhibitions, and conferences. Limited battery and low bandwidth are some of the main constraints in a wireless network. Moreover, nodes mobility causes network topology to change frequently in MAENTs. High control overhead is one of the main reasons of low packet delivery ratio (PDR) for a multicast routing protocol in MANETs. On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP) is well-known for its simplicity, good PDR, and robustness against nodes mobility. The main drawback of this protocol is its high control overhead in the presence of a large number of senders that reduces PDR drastically. In this paper, we introduce LODMRP a new protocol to decrease this excessive control overhead. The proposed protocol tries to confine flooding of control packets within the network by broadcasting only a part of these packets based on a level-based approach. Simulation results show improvement in PDR and control overhead.

Scheduled-links multicast routing protocol in MANETs

“…The contributing nodes have been modeled as M/M/1 queuing systems. Another effort to reduce the excessive control overhead of ODMRP has been achieved by level-based on demand multicast routing protocol (LODMRP) [15]. In the proposed LODMRP scheme, the distance to the source node is cached to set up broadcasting level of Join-Q message.…”

Fully Distributed Multicast Routing Protocol for IEEE 802.15.8 Peer-Aware Communication

“…To facilitate the analysis of multicast protocols, we can classify them into three approaches: tree-based [4][5][6][7][8][9][10]18], meshbased [11][12][13][14][15][16][17], and hybrid-based ad hoc multicast routing protocols [19,20]. Ad hoc multicast routing protocol utilizing increasing ID-numbers (AMRIS) [8] falls under the treebased approach.…”

“…In order to support a high mobility environment, more recent multicast routing protocols use a mesh network [11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Multicast protocols using mesh networks usually provide multipath links to nodes within a multicast group.…”