Title :
On-demand multicast routing protocol
Author :
Lee, Sung-Ju ; Gerla, Mario ; Chiang, Ching-Chuan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel multicast routing protocol for mobile ad hoc wireless networks. The protocol, termed ODMRP (on-demand multicast routing protocol), is a mesh-based, rather than a conventional tree-based multicast scheme and uses a forwarding group concept (only a subset of nodes forwards the multicast packets via scoped flooding). It applies on-demand procedures to dynamically build routes and maintain multicast group membership. ODMRP is well suited for ad hoc wireless networks with mobile hosts where bandwidth is limited, topology changes frequently, and power is constrained. We evaluate ODMRP´s scalability and performance via simulation
Keywords :
mobile radio; multicast communication; packet radio networks; protocols; telecommunication network routing; ODMRP; forwarding group concept; mesh-based multicast scheme; mobile ad hoc wireless networks; mobile hosts; multicast group membership; multicast packets; on-demand multicast routing protocol; performance evaluation; scalability evaluation; scoped flooding; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Computer science; Internet; Laboratories; Multicast protocols; Network topology; Routing protocols; Scalability; Wireless mesh networks;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 1999. WCNC. 1999 IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5668-3
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.1999.796947
