Design and investigation of scalable multicast recursive protocols for wired and wireless ad hoc networks

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 2.1 An Ad Hoc network [64]....................................................................................... 10

Figure 2.2 Unicast-based multicast packet delivery............................................................... 13

Figure 2.3 The Route Discovery implemented at AODV [16]............................................... 20

Figure 2.4 Route request propagation in DSR [58] ................................................................ 21

Figure 2.5 Route reply in DSR [58]...................................................................................... 22

Figure 2.6 Routing zone for node A with distance P=2 [60].................................................. 24

Figure 2.7 Multicast packet delivery ...................................................................................... 24

Figure 2.8 Node Join operation in MAODV [64]................................................................... 26

Figure 2.9 Data Forwarding in ODMRP[64]......................................................................... 29

Figure 3.1 Xcast packet delivery [10].................................................................................... 36

Figure 3.2 Xcast+ data packet delivery [10]........................................................................... 38

Figure 3.3 E2M packet delivery [7]....................................................................................... 49

Figure 3.4 Packet Delivery at EM2NET [7]........................................................................... 51

Figure 4.1 IGMPv3 message format...................................................................................... 61

Figure 4.2 R_qM / R_pM message format ................................................................................ 62

Figure 4.3 eBNM message format.......................................................................................... 64

Figure 4.4 rBNM message format ......................................................................................... 64

Figure 4.5 MFT entry format.................................................................................................. 65

Figure 4.6 Joining process in SReM (Case 1)......................................................................... 67

Figure 4.7 Joining process in SReM (Case 2)......................................................................... 68

Figure 4.8 Joining process in SReM (Case 3)......................................................................... 69

Figure 4.9 Leaving process in SReM (Case 1) ....................................................................... 70