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

2.3.4 Conference room.................................................................................. 12

2.3.5 Personal area networks (PANs)............................................................ 12

2.4 Routing in wireless Ad hoc network................................................................ 12

2.4.1 Unicast routing protocol....................................................................... 12

2.4.2 Proactive routing protocol.................................................................... 13

2.4.3 Reactive routing protocols ................................................................... 15

2.4.4 Hybrid routing protocol........................................................................23

2.4.5 Multicast ad hoc Routing protocol.......................................................24

2.4.6 Tree based routing protocol..................................................................25

2.4.7 Mesh based routing protocol................................................................27

2.5 Discussion ........................................................................................................ 30

2.6 Summary .......................................................................................................... 33

3. RELATED WORK.............................................................34

3.1 Introduction...................................................................................................... 34

3.2 Explicit multicast protocols.............................................................................. 35

3.2.1 Explicit multicast routing protocol (Xcast).......................................... 35

3.2.2 Explicit Multicast Extension (Xcast+) ................................................. 37

3.2.3 A REcursive UNicast TreE (REUNITE) Protocol...............................39

3.2.4 Hop By Hop Multicasting routing protocol (HBH) ............................. 40

3.2.5 Simple Explicit Multicast (SEM) Protocol .......................................... 42

3.3 Explicit Multicast in MANETs ........................................................................ 44

3.3.1 Differential Destination Multicast (DDM) Protocol............................45

3.3.2 A Scalable Multicast protocol for MANETs........................................47

3.3.3 An Explicit Multicast protocol for MANETs ...................................... 50

3.4 Discussion ........................................................................................................ 52

3.5 Summary .......................................................................................................... 54