A Forwarding-Chain Based Mobile Multicast Scheme with Management Support

In this paper, we propose a mobile multicast architecture with management support. In this architecture, a powerful entity called Multicast Controller (MC) is deployed which handles most of the multicast management-related tasks. Based on this architecture, the mobile multicast routing protocol called Fast Chain Mobile Multicast (FCMM) is proposed, which processes the handover in advance and spans the multicast tree using the forwarding chain. Our analysis demonstrates that the FCMM protocol outperforms other related protocols and is a promising alternative for providing efficient and flexible mobile multicast services.