A comparative analysis on qos multicast routing protocols in MANETs

Simultaneous transmission of data from one sender to multiple receivers is called multicasting. Several widely used applications require multicasting at least at the logical level. Examples include audio video teleconferencing, real time video streaming and the maintenance of distributed databases. In many cases it is advantageous to implement multicasting at the level of the routing algorithm (other approaches would be oneto-all unicast or the implementation of multicasting at the application layer). In this paper we are presenting a comparative analysis on various multicast routing protocols in adhoc networks.