More and more research effort has been done to study the non-cooperative games recently. Among these various forms of games, the unicast/multicast routing game [2,5,6] and multicast cost sharing game [1,3,4] have received a considerable amount of attentions over the past few year due to its application in the Internet. However, both unicast/multicast routing game and multicast cost sharing game...

With conventional dynamic routing algorithms, many query messages are required in a distributed environment for efficient multicast routing of any traffic volume. We have developed a dynamic routing algorithm that uses a predetermined path search in which an appropriate multicast path is dynamically constructed by searching only a few nodes. This algorithm can construct an efficient multicast t...

Recently introduced by Abraham et. al, compact multicast routing algorithms construct point-to-multipoint routing paths from any source to any set of destinations. The present paper introduces a different approach by proposing a name-independent compact multicast routing algorithm that is leaf-initiated, fully distributed, and independent from the underlying unicast routing. By means of the pro...

In this paper we propose an ”on demand” multicast routing protocol for a wireless, mobile, multihop network. The proposed scheme has two key features: (a) it is based on the forwarding group concept (i.e., a subset of nodes is in charge of forwarding the multicast packets via scoped flooding) rather than on the conventional multicast tree scheme; (b) it dynamically refreshes the forward group m...

Recently, multicast routing protocols become increasingly important aspect in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs), as they effectively manage group communications. Meanwhile, multimedia and real-time applications are becoming essential need for users of MANET. Thus it is necessary to design efficient and effective Quality of Service (QoS) multicast routing strategies. In this paper, we address the ...

In this paper we give an overview of open-source and commercial multicast routing solutions. XORP (eXtensible Open Router Platform) is the only system which includes support for the multicast management and multicast routing protocol. We provided support for the multicast routing and multicast routing protocol (PIM sparse mode) in the core of the Linux operating system and developed an advanced...

Nowadays, group communications over Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) have received significant attention. Multicasting plays an important role in simultaneous delivery of information to receivers. Thus, it is necessary design efficient and effective multicast routing protocol support communication applications. Several efforts been put improve routing. However, they do not consider scalability i...

The advent of ubiquitous computing and the proliferation of portable computing devices have raised the importance of mobile ad-hoc network. A major challenge lies in adapting multicast communication into such environments where mobility and link failures are inevitable. The purpose of this paper is to study impact of mobility models in performance of multicast routing protocols in MANET. In thi...

Within the development of network multimedia technology, more and more real-time multimedia applications arrive with the need to transmit information using multicast communication. Multicast IP routing is an important topic, covering both theoretical and practical interest in different networks layers. In network layer, there are several multicast routing protocols using multicast routing trees...

Multicast routing is a key technology for modern communication networks. It sends a single copy of a message from a source to multiple receivers over a communication link that is shared by the paths to the receivers. This is especially appropriate in wireless environments where bandwidth is scarce and many users are sharing the same wireless channels. In particular, for WMNs, multicast can repr...