without any aid of infrastructure. This thesis designed and described a new scalable ad
hoc recursive multicast protocol, which supports the scalability feature in ad hoc
networks efficiently.
1.5 Publications from this thesis
• K. Al-Begain and F. Albalas, Mobile scalable recursive multicast protocol
(MoSReM), In E. Koucheryavy et. al (eds):”Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless
Multimedia Networks”, Springer LNCS, April, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-387-85572-1.
• F. Albalas and K. Al-Begain, Mobile scalable multicast protocol (MoSReM), 8th
Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications,
Networking and Broadcasting (PGNet 2007), Liverpool, UK, 28-29 June 2007.
1.6 Structure of thesis
Further to this chapter, there are five chapters that are organized as follows.
Chapter 2 describes the background related to this thesis study area, In particular, knowledge
background for readers to facilitate understanding the ad hoc environment and its protocols,
including the main features and applications for ad hoc (Section 2.1), the different types of ad
routing protocols (unicast, multicast) are defined with subtypes for each with examples
(Section 2.4). A discussion and comparison of the previous explained examples of routing
protocols (Section 2.5), Section 2.6 whilst summarizes Chapter 2.
Chapter 3 introduces the related work to our proposed algorithms including explicit multicast
protocols for wired networks (Section 3.2) and explicit multicast protocols for MANETs
(Section 3.3). (Section 3.4) introduces a discussion of the previously proposed protocols in
explicit multicast, followed by a summary for the chapter found in (Section 3.5).
Chapter 4 discusses the scalable recursive multicast protocol, including an overview of the
proposed protocol (Section 4.2), building the multicast tree by discussing the membership