A multicast congestion control scheme for mobile ad-hoc networks

This paper presents a multi-rate multicast congestion control scheme for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). Not only does the proposed scheme overcome the disadvantages of existing multicast congestion control protocols which prevent them from being used in MANETs, but it also achieves good performance in other aspects such as fairness with TCP, robustness against misbehaving receivers, and traffic stability. Besides achieving the above advantages, the proposed scheme does not impose any significant changes on the queuing, scheduling or forwarding policies of existing networks.