Overlay multicasting for small group application in MANETs. (18th June 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jeong, Hong-Jong; Joung, Uhjin; Kim, Dongkyun
• Is Part Of: International journal of ad hoc and ubiquitous computing. Volume 2:Number 4(2007)
• Page Start: 215
• Page End: 224
• Publication Date: 2007-06-18
• Subjects: MANET -- overlay multicasting -- small groups -- shortest path -- multicast routing protocols -- mobile networks -- ad hoc networks; Ubiquitous computing -- Periodicals; Embedded computer systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer architecture -- Periodicals; 004.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8225

Abstract

Most MANET multicast routing protocols require intermediate nodes to maintain the multicast membership information. Efforts to reduce such an overhead proposed overlay multicast mechanisms, especially for small group. We propose the overlay small group multicast mechanism, called Shortest Path overlay Multicast (SPM) to improve the performance in terms of the distribution delay of packets and the bandwidth needed for the delivery. SPM creates the shortest path overlay tree from the paths toward each receiver which are provided by underlying routing protocols.