An efficient routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks with neighbor awareness and multicasting

Author

Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan ; Alam, Md Mahbub ; Monowar, Md Mostafa ; Rabbi, Md Forhad

Author_Institution

CSE Dept., North South Univ., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2004

fDate

38199

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

100

Abstract

An ad hoc network is built on the fly where a number of mobile nodes work in cooperation without the engagement of any centralized access point or any fixed infrastructure. In this paper, we proposed an efficient routing protocol for ad hoc networks which we named NAMP (Neighbor Aware Multicast Routing Protocol). NAMP aims at achieving higher performance by reducing control overhead and improvement of the end-to-end delivery of data packets. It is a tree based, hybrid multicast routing protocol. For route creation, NAMP uses the neighboring information and dominant pruning approach. It uses secondary forwarder method for route maintenance.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile computing; mobile radio; multicast communication; routing protocols; tree data structures; trees (mathematics); NAMP; Neighbor Aware Multicast Routing Protocol; centralized access point; control overhead; data packets; dominant pruning approach; end-to-end delivery; fixed infrastructure; mobile ad hoc networks; mobile nodes; multicasting; neighbor awareness; neighboring information; route creation; route maintenance; routing protocol; secondary forwarder method; tree based hybrid multicast routing protocol; Ad hoc networks; Delay; Floods; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile computing; Multicast protocols; Network topology; Personal digital assistants; Routing protocols; Tree data structures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

E-Tech 2004

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8655-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETECH.2004.1353851

Filename

1353851