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