The effect of using XCAST based routing protocol in wireless ad hoc networks

Wireless ad hoc networks are a type of wireless network that can be easily created without the need of network infrastructure or central administration. Unfortunately, wireless ad hoc networks suffer from some limitations related to the bandwidth leakage. So a proper data flow mechanism should be used to save the bandwidth consumption. So we proposed an XCAST based routing protocol (P-XCAST) to be used in wireless ad hoc networks, but XCAST was initially designed for wired network and there is an absence of software implementation. Our P-XCAST routing protocol is based on modifying route request control packets mechanism to build the network topology and route the data packet which hold the list of destination by classify the P-XCAST list of destinations according to similarity on their hop count number, to minimize the bandwidth consumption by sending one data packet instead of sending n packets equal to n destinations. In this paper, we have tested P-XCAST QoS parameters using background many-to-many applications under different groups´ size and compare these results with AoDV and WRP routing protocols. The results of simulation reflect a better QoS performance parameters compared with AoDV and WRP routing protocols.