Multicast Scaling Properties in Massively Dense Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Jacquet, Philippe ; Rodolakis, Georgios

Author_Institution

Inst. Nat. de Recherche en Inf. et Autom.

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

22-22 July 2005

Firstpage

93

Lastpage

99

Abstract

We study the benefits of multicast routing in the performance of mobile ad hoc networks. In particular we show that if a node wishes to communicate with n distinct destinations, multicast can reduce the overall network load by a factor O (radicn), when used instead of unicast. One of the implications of this scaling property consists in a significant increase of the total capacity of the network for data delivery. We discuss how these results can be taken into consideration in the operation of a multicast protocol using overlay multicast trees

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; multicast communication; telecommunication network routing; mobile ad hoc network performance; multicast routing; multicast scaling properties; overlay multicast trees; Ad hoc networks; Communication system traffic control; Costs; Intelligent networks; Mobile ad hoc networks; Multicast communication; Multicast protocols; Network topology; Routing protocols; Unicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2005. Proceedings. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

ISSN

1521-9097

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2281-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.2005.201

Filename

1524260