A zone-based shared-tree multicast protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

Author

Rangnekar, Aniruddha ; Zhang, Ying ; Selcuk, Ali A. ; Bicak, Ali ; Devarapalli, Vijay ; Sidhu, Deepinder

Author_Institution

Maryland Center for Telecommun. Res., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

2039

Abstract

This paper proposes a new multicast protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The proposed protocol, shared-tree MZR, is a shared tree variant of the multicast routing protocol based on zone routing (MZR). The concept of zone-based multicast routing for mobile ad hoc networks was originally proposed in MZR (V. Deverapalli et al., June 2001). The new protocol utilizes the advantages of the shared-tree together with the advantages of the zone-based routing. The performance of the protocol is analyzed for various network conditions. The test results show that the new protocol performs well and has significantly low overhead in scenarios with multiple sources.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; multicast protocols; routing protocols; MANET; mobile ad hoc networks; zone routing; zone-based shared-tree multicast protocol; Computer networks; Costs; Mobile ad hoc networks; Multicast protocols; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Routing protocols; Telecommunication computing; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Fall. 2003 IEEE 58th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7954-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2003.1285383

Filename

1285383