Hybrid Zone Based Multicast Routing Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Network

Author

Jun Lu ; Liao Bin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., North China Electr. Power Univ., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

MAODV is widely accepted as an on-demand multicast routing protocol for mobile ad hoc network (MANET). This paper presents a hybrid zone based multicast routing scheme (HZMAODV) to solve the scalability and robustness issues of MAODV. Inspired by the zone division principle and the geography aware routing, the proposed scheme firstly divides the routing area into several zones based on geographic information, and then constructs the inter-zone forward paths and the intra- zone paths for multicast routing respectively. Besides taking MAODV to build the intra-zone routing paths, the inter-zone paths are logically forwarded by the geography characteristics of the related mobile nodes. Simulation results illustrate that HZMAODV performs better than MAODV in terms of the forwarding efficiency and the average delay respectively with different configurations in the mobile velocity and the mobile receivers.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile communication; multicast communication; routing protocols; MANET; geography aware routing; hybrid zone based multicast routing; interzone routing path; intrazone routing path; mobile ad hoc network; ondemand multicast routing protocol; zone division principle; Delay; Geography; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Multicast protocols; Power engineering and energy; Robustness; Routing protocols; Scalability; Spread spectrum communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.625

Filename

4678533