DESIRE: Density Aware Heterogenous Overlay Multicast Forwarding Scheme in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Ki-Il KIM
Sang-Ha KIM

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.9    pp.3579-3587
Publication Date: 2005/09/01
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DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.9.3579
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advances in Ad Hoc Mobile Communications and Networking)
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Keyword: 
heterogenous forwarding,  overlay multicast,  MANET,  

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Summary: 
Overlay multicast schemes for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) [1] have been proposed to remove non group members' dependency for multicast forwarding. However, since all packets are relayed from one group member to other group member in a form of unicast packet, they sometimes cause a lot of packets' collision and low resource utilization particularly where group members densely locate. In this paper, we propose a new forwarding scheme, DESIRE (Density awarE heterogeneouS overlay multIcast foRwarding schemE in MANET), for overlay multicast in MANET. DESIRE is significantly different from previous overlay multicast schemes in that it creates separate data forwarding path over overlay DDT (Data Delivery Tree) depending on density of group members. In dense environment, a zone is constructed and a scoped flooding is applied within it. On the other hand, in sparse environment, data dissemination is accomplished in a form of unicast packet similar to previous overlay multicast. By adapting scoped flooding in dense environment, it can reduce a lot of packets' collision and balance battery consumption by making use of mobile node's broadcast capability entirely. Also, in sparse environment, DESIRE can cope with network mobility very well since overlay DDT can remain static regardless of changes in physical topology. Such distinct advantages are evaluated by simulation. Generally, better performance is shown with large group members than small group members.