On-demand overlay multicast in mobile ad hoc networks

Author

Stanze, Oliver ; Zitterbart, Martina

Author_Institution

Inst. of Telematics, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

4

fYear

2005

fDate

13-17 March 2005

Firstpage

2155

Abstract

This paper presents the on-demand overlay multicast protocol (ODOMP), a novel approach for multicast data distribution in mobile ad hoc networks. ODOMP is a reactive protocol which creates an overlay among the group members on-demand. The created overlay is a source rooted tree which connects the group members via IP-in-IP tunnels. Routing is done by an arbitrary underlying unicast routing protocol. A novel creation mechanism allows ODOMP to create an efficient overlay with low communication overhead. The performance of ODOMP is compared with the performance of the well known multicast routing protocol ODMRP by means of simulations.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; data communication; mobile computing; mobile radio; multicast protocols; routing protocols; telecommunication network topology; trees (mathematics); IP-in-IP tunnels; ODOMP; group members; mobile ad hoc networks; multicast data distribution; on-demand overlay multicast protocol; performance; reactive protocol; source rooted tree; unicast routing protocol; Bandwidth; Intelligent networks; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Multicast protocols; Routing protocols; Spread spectrum communication; Telematics; Unicast; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2005 IEEE

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8966-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2005.1424851

Filename

1424851