An on-demand shared tree with hybrid state for multicast routing in ad hoc mobile wireless networks

Author

Pagani, Elena ; Rossi, Gian Paolo

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Milan Univ., Italy

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

9

Abstract

This paper describes the multicast shared tree protocol (MSTP) that has been designed to support the delivery of multicast packets in a mobile ad hoc network. MSTP uses a shared tree as its basic multicast infrastructure and, to maintain the tree against topology changes and network failures, it adopts the so called hybrid-state reliability mechanism, which combines the use of soft and hard state mechanisms applied to an on-demand scheme. It ensures fault tolerance and high group connectivity despite mobility, and provides a light-weight tree maintenance procedure

Keywords

access protocols; fault tolerance; mobile radio; radio access networks; ad hoc mobile wireless networks; fault tolerance; group connectivity; hybrid state; hybrid-state reliability mechanism; multicast infrastructure; multicast packets; multicast routing; on-demand shared tree; tree maintenance procedure; Computer science; Intelligent networks; Maintenance; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile computing; Multicast protocols; Routing protocols; Unicast; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 International Workshops on

Conference_Location

Aizu-Wakamatsu

ISSN

1530-2016

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0353-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPPW.1999.800033

Filename

800033