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An Efficient Multicast Routing Protocol in Wireless Mobile Networks

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Providing multicast service to mobile hosts in wireless mobile networking environments is difficult due to frequent changes of mobile host location and group membership. If a conventional multicast routing protocol is used in wireless mobile networks, several problems may be experienced since existing multicast routing protocols assume static hosts when they construct the multicast delivery tree. To overcome the problems, several multicast routing protocols for mobile hosts have been proposed. Although the protocols solve several problems inherent in multicast routing proposals for static hosts, they still have problems such as non-optimal delivery path, datagram duplication, overheads resulting from frequent reconstruction of a multicast tree, etc. In this paper, we summarize these problems of multicast routing protocols and propose an efficient multicast routing protocol based on IEFT mobile IP in wireless mobile networks. The proposed protocol introduces a multicast agent, where a mobile host receives a tunneled multicast datagram from a multicast agent located in a network close to it or directly from the multicast router in the current network. While receiving a tunneled multicast datagram from a remote multicast agent, the local multicast agent may start multicast join process, which makes the multicast delivery route optimal. The proposed protocol reduces data delivery path length and decreases the amount of duplicate copies of multicast datagrams. We examined and compared the performance of the proposed protocol and existing protocols by simulation under various environments and we got an improved performance over the existing proposals.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), San 31, Hyoja-Dong, Pohang, Korea

    Young-Joo Suh & Dong-Hee Kwon

  2. EC Service Research Team, DACOM R&D Center, 34 Kajong-Dong, Yusong-Gu, Taejon, 305-350, Korea

    Hee-Sook Shin

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Suh, YJ., Shin, HS. & Kwon, DH. An Efficient Multicast Routing Protocol in Wireless Mobile Networks. Wireless Networks 7, 443–453 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016780525280

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