Protocol Independent Distributed Message Copying Multicast Scheme for the Wireless Network

Base station multicast is an important enabling service for the current and future Internet. With the explosive growth of the Internet, a challenging issue facing Base Station multicast is scalability, in particular, the problem of multicast forwarding state and control explosion. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to address the multicast scalability problem for backbone domains - distributed message copying multicast (DMCM). This multicast scheme is designed for the wireless network, and is independent of any underlying intra-domain multicast protocols. The feasibility and performance of our algorithm is demonstrated through analysis and simulations.