Destination-Driven On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Tian, Ke ; Zhang, Baoxian ; Mouftah, Hussein ; Zhao, Zhuang ; Ma, Jian

Author_Institution

State key Lab. of Networking & Switching Tech., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

14-18 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we design a destination-driven on-demand multicast routing protocol for wireless ad hoc networks. The design objective is to improve the multicast forwarding efficiency. To achieve this goal, the path to reach a multicast destination is biased towards those paths passing through another multicast destination. If multiple such choices are available, the one leading to the least extra cost is selected. Our protocol embeds this destination-driven feature into the on-demand multicast structure building process of an existing multicast protocol ODMRP. Detailed protocol design descriptions are provided. Simulation results show that our protocol can greatly improve the forwarding efficiency as compared with ODMRP. Moreover, our destination-driven design can also work well with other existing multicast routing protocols for wireless ad hoc networks.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; multicast communication; routing protocols; destination-driven on-demand multicast routing protocol; multicast forwarding efficiency; protocol design descriptions; wireless ad hoc networks; Buildings; Communication switching; Communications Society; Costs; Educational institutions; Mobile ad hoc networks; Multicast algorithms; Multicast protocols; Routing protocols; Telecommunication switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2009. ICC '09. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dresden

ISSN

1938-1883

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3435-0

Electronic_ISBN

1938-1883

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2009.5198907

Filename

5198907