Multirate-aware Multicast Routing in MANETs

Author

Nguyen, Uyen Trang ; Asif, Amir ; Xiong, Xing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., York Univ., Toronto, Ont.

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

554

Lastpage

557

Abstract

We propose a rate-adaptive multicast (RAM) routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) that is multirate-aware. During the process of path discovery, the quality of wireless links is estimated to suggest optimal transmission rates, which are then used to calculate the total transmission time incurred by the mobile nodes on a path. Among several considered paths from a source to a destination, RAM selects the path with the lowest total transmission time. Simulation results have shown that RAM outperforms single-rate multicast in terms of packet delivery ratio, packet end-to-end delay, and throughput of the multicast group. In this paper, we apply RAM to effectively support video multicast in MANETs

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; multicast protocols; radio links; routing protocols; video communication; MANET; RAM; mobile ad-hoc network; packet end-to-end delay; path discovery; rate-adaptive multicast routing protocol; video multicast; wireless link quality; Access protocols; Computer science; Delay; Energy consumption; Error analysis; Mobile computing; Multicast protocols; Read-write memory; Routing protocols; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0507-6

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0507-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MOBHOC.2006.278608

Filename

4053954