Abstract :
Manycast is a group communication paradigm in which one client communicates simultaneously with some threshold number of servers from the pre-specified group members. In some degree, manycast integrates the features of multicast and anycast: multiple destination and dynamical selection. Networks support for manycast has trigged the development of many communication applications such as resource discovery, distributed synchronization, grid computing, fault tolerance etc. Manycast problem are attracting increasing interest from researchers in Ad Hoc networks, delay tolerant networks and optical networks etc. This paper describes some of the major different manycast routing protocols, and further research issues are also discussed.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; client-server systems; delay tolerant networks; multicast communication; optical fibre networks; routing protocols; ad hoc networks; delay tolerant networks; distributed synchronization; fault tolerance; grid computing; group communication paradigm; manycast routing algorithms; manycast routing protocols; optical networks; resource discovery; Ad hoc networks; Algorithm design and analysis; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Protocols; Reliability; Routing; Manycast; routing algorithm; Ad Hoc;Optical network;
