A study of optimized tree and mesh based multicast routing protocols for manets

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc NETwork MANET is a dynamically newlinereconfigurable wireless network with no fixed infrastructure or central newlineadministration Multicasting is intended for grouporiented applications like newlinevideo conferencing emergency rescue operations etc Though the same data newlineis sent to multiple recipients the communication cost is greatly reduced A newlinenumber of MANET multicast routing protocols are proposed Based on newlinerouting state maintenance and the global data structure used to forward data newlinepackets multicast protocols are classified into different categories newline