An Efficient Video Multicast Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Destinations in MANETs

In this paper, we address the issue of video multicast for heterogeneous destinations in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). By exploiting multiple node-disjoint trees and multiple description coding (MDC), we propose an efficient video multicast routing protocol for heterogeneous destinations (EVMR-HD). EVMR-HD deploys, for the first time, the independent-description property of MDC to increase number of video descriptions requested by each destination and therefore improve the quality of the received video. Our results show that EVMR-HD outperforms Serial MDTMR in terms of several metrics.