In this paper we propose an explicit multicast routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Explicit multicasting differs from common approaches by listing destination addresses in data packet headers. Using the explicit destination information, the multicast routing protocol can avoid the overhead of employing its own route construction and maintenance mechanisms by taking advantage o...

In this paper we propose a delay-constrained distributed multicast routing algorithm based on token passing. This algorithm is fully distributed and generates a multicast routing tree, which not only meets the realtime requirement, but also has a sub-optimal network cost. Simulations have been done and the results have shown that the multicast routing tree generated by our algorithm has better ...

ABSTRACT This paper presents a performance analysis of an enhanced version of the Topological Multicast Routing Algorithm (ToMuRo) on mobile wireless ad-hoc networks, which includes undecided border nodes. Employing undecided border nodes to forward multicast packets represents a significant enhancement because it optimizes the path discovery process by selecting undecided nodes that can functi...

Many peer-to-peer overlay operations are inherently parallel and this parallelism can be exploited by using multi-destination multicast routing, resulting in significant message reduction in the underlying network. We propose criteria for assessing when multicast routing can effectively be used, and compare multi-destination multicast and host group multicast using these criteria. We show that ...

This paper discusses different approaches of providing multicast traffic for mobile hosts. Mobile IPv6 is used for mobility support. The network employs Protocol Independent Multicast Dense Mode (PIM–DM) for multicast routing and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) to collect multicast group membership information. We identify and analyze interoperation problems concerning membership control for...

Multicast routing protocols in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are emerging for wireless group communication which 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 spec...

The IP-multicast architecture is extended with addressing information along multicast routing trees that permits more eecient and sophisticated multicast routing options and encourages communication and cooperation between IP and higher-layer protocols. The Addressable Internet Multi-cast (AIM) architecture is introduced that enables sources to restrict the delivery of packets to a subset of th...

Enabling Internet to Vehicular multicast communication is fraught with challenges due to the heterogeneous nature of the two networks. While the conventional multicasting in the Internet relies on ”structured” multicast routing, it is not clear how robust can be such routing structure in vehicular networks. We study the robustness of the multicast routing structure in vehicular networks for dat...

Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) are considered as very promising architectures for future optical transport networks, since they efficiently use the spectrum resources and provide high bandwidth scalability and granularity. In this paper, the multicast routing problem in EON is considered. A fragmentation-aware multicast routing algorithm, named as Weighted Dynamic Fragmentation-aware Multicast...

In Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs), multicast routing is favorable to minimize the cost of transmission as it routes data to a group of destinations simultaneously. However, the main aim of multicast routing is to maintain energy efficiency, ensure minimum delay and stability of paths. In this study we propose to develop a Predictive Energy efficient and Reliable Multicast Routing using Particle...