On-demand multicasting in ad-hoc networks:comparing AODV and ODMRP

Author

Kunz, Thomas ; Cheng, Ed

Author_Institution

Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

453

Lastpage

454

Abstract

Multicasting can efficiently support a wide variety of applications that are characterized by a close degree of collaboration, typical for many mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) applications currently envisioned. To deal with the specific characteristics of MANETs, new multicast protocols that operate in an on-demand manner are being proposed and investigated. Our results show that a tree-based on-demand protocol is not necessarily the best choice. A mesh-based protocol can outperform tree-based protocols, due to the availability of alternative paths, which allow multicast datagrams to be delivered to all or most multicast receivers even if links fail.

Keywords

mobile computing; mobile radio; multicast communication; packet radio networks; protocols; telecommunication network routing; MANET; ad-hoc network; ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol; mesh-based protocol; multicast datagrams; on-demand multicast routing protocol; on-demand multicasting; tree-based on-demand protocol; Ad hoc networks; Bidirectional control; Broadcasting; Computer applications; Intelligent networks; Mobile ad hoc networks; Multicast protocols; Network topology; Routing protocols; Unicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 2002. Proceedings. 22nd International Conference on

ISSN

1063-6927

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1585-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.2002.1022287

Filename

1022287