MAC Layer Multicast in Wireless Multihop Networks

Author

Jain, Shweta ; Das, Samir R.

Author_Institution

State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Many applications in wireless ad-hoc networks require multicast communication. In order to provide efficient multicast, various multicast routing protocols have been designed in recent years to facilitate formation of routes between multicast senders and receivers. There has also been some work to develop a suitable MAC protocol to improve efficiency of multicast communication. In this work we explore some approaches for reliable multicast at the MAC layer. We develop a multicast extension of IEEE 802.11 protocol and evaluate its performance. We have implemented our protocol in the popular ns-2 simulator and have performed experiments with multicast routing protocol. Our approach demonstrates superior performance in terms of packet delivery fraction as well as delay compared to the IEEE 802.11 protocol

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; multicast protocols; routing protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 protocol; MAC layer; medium access control; multicast routing protocol; ns-2 simulator; packet delivery fraction; wireless ad-hoc network; wireless multihop network; Ad hoc networks; Delay; Intelligent networks; Media Access Protocol; Multicast communication; Multicast protocols; Routing protocols; Spread spectrum communication; Telecommunication network reliability; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication System Software and Middleware, 2006. Comsware 2006. First International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9575-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMSWA.2006.1665166

Filename

1665166