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A Scalable and Reliable Multicast Routing Protocol for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks

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Multicasting is an essential service for ad-hoc wireless networks. In a multicasting environment with multiple senders, receivers or meeting members, traditional multicast routing protocols must pay great overhead for multiple multicast sessions. This work presents a scalable and reliable multicasting protocol for ad-hoc wireless networks. A virtual backbone is used as a shared structure for multiple sessions. A clustering scheme is used to reduce the routing path length. A novel scheme is developed to effectively multicast packets using forwarding gates. Furthermore, a lost packet recovery scheme is developed for reliable packet transmission. This scheme can be used to improve the reliability of traditional non-acknowledged multicasting approach. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the proposed multicasting scheme and the results demonstrate that our scheme outperforms other schemes in terms of packet delivery ratio, packet delivery time, control overhead, multicast efficiency, and cost effect. Furthermore, our approach is stable for networks with high mobility and the lost packet recovery scheme is cost-effective.

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    C. R. Dow, J. H. Lin, K. T. Chen, S. C. Chen & S. F. Hwang

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Chyi-Ren Dow was born in 1962. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in information engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1984 and 1988, respectively, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taiwan. His research interests include mobile computing, ad-hoc wireless networks, agent techniques, fault tolerance, and learning technology.

Jyh-Horng Lin was born in 1975. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in information engineering from Feng Chia University, Taiwan, in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He is currently a candidate for the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Information Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan. His research interests include mobile computing and ad-hoc wireless networks.

Kun-Tai Chen was born in 1978. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in information engineering from Feng Chia University, Taiwan, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He is currently an engineer in the VIA technologies, Inc. Hsinchu branch, Taiwan. His research interests include mobile computing, ad-hoc wireless networks and video decoding.

Sheng-Chang Chen was born in 1979. He received his B.S. degree and M.S. degree in information engineering from Feng Chia University, Taiwan, in 2001 and 2002. He is currently a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from Feng Chia University, Taiwan. His research interests include mobile computing, ad-hoc wireless network and fault tolerance technique.

Shiow-Fen Hwang was born in 1963. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1985, 1987 and 1991, respectively. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taiwan. Her research interests include interconnection networks, mobile computing, and computer algorithms.

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Dow, C.R., Lin, J.H., Chen, K.T. et al. A Scalable and Reliable Multicast Routing Protocol for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 34, 335–357 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-5229-8

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