ENERGY PROFICIENT BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL ASSORTMENT IN AD HOC NETWORKS
Keywords:
ODMRP, Topology, Network, Unicast, MulticastAbstract
This manuscript presents an original document for multicast routing protocol for mobile ad hoc wireless
networks. The protocol, termed ODMRP (On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol), is a mesh-based, rather than a
predictable tree based, Multicast scheme and uses a forwarding group concept (only a subset of nodes forwards the
multicast packets via scoped flooding). It applies on-demand measures to dynamically build routes and maintain
multicast group membership. ODMRP is well suited for ad hoc wireless networks with mobile hosts where bandwidth
is partial, topology changes frequently, and power is controlled. We estimate ODMRP's scalability and performance
via simulation.