management (Section 4.3), joining and leaving of members (Section 4.4). To deliver data
packet a header should be added to the data packet header, this new header is discussed in
(Section 4.5). A performance evaluation including cost analysis and simulator based
simulation is presented with discussion and evaluation in (Section 4.6), while (Section 4.7)
summarizes this chapter with its results.
Chapter 5 presents the new protocols proposed for mobility feature over scalable multicast
protocol starting by proposing and describing new protocol for mobility feature applied for
receivers (Section 5.2), the proposed protocol details are widely discussed in (Section 5.3). In
(Section 5.4) a description of new scalable multicast ad hoc protocol is introduced. The data
structure details and different messages structure is discussed in (Section 5.5). Then
discussing how the proposed protocol handles the node mobility feature in (Section 5.6). The
performance evaluation with results, comparison and analysis are discussed in (Section 5.7).
The last section summarizes this chapter.
In chapter 6, the thesis is concluded by briefly revising the main arguments that influenced
the design of scalable multicast protocols for wired and wireless ad hoc protocols. Results are
summarized and their improvements in the wired and wireless ad hoc networks are presented.
Finally the thesis discusses future work orientations.