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

CONTENTS

Design and Investigation of Scalable Multicast Recursive Protocols for

Wired and Wireless Ad hoc Networks

Declaration of Authorship.................................................................................................. ii

ABSTRACT......................................................................................................................iii

ACKNOWLEDGMENT................................................................................................... iv

LIST OF TABLES............................................................................................................ ix

LIST OF FIGURES........................................................................................................... x

ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................................xiii

1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................1

1.1 Multicast Applications..................................................................1

1.2 Multicast routing in MANETs ........................................................................... 2

1.3 Motivation.......................................................................................................... 5

1.4 Summary of the contributions............................................................................ 6

1.5 Publications from this thesis .............................................................................. 7

1.6 Structure of thesis............................................................................................... 7

2. RESEARCH BACKGROUND................................................9

2.1 Introduction........................................................................................................ 9

2.2 Definition of Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Network............................................. 10

2.3 Features and Applications of Wireless Ad Hoc Network ................................ 11

2.3.1 Military operations............................................................................... 11

2.3.2 Search and rescue operation................................................................. 11

2.3.3 Bluetooth.............................................................................................. 12