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

5.3 MoSReM Protocol Description...................................................................... 101

5.4 MoSReM Details............................................................................................ 102

5.4.1 Roaming messages in MoSREM........................................................ 102

5.4.2 Roaming messages roles in MoSReM ............................................... 104

5.5 Scalable Ad hoc Recursive Multicast (SARM) protocol ............................... 108

5.5.1 Mobility messages in SARM ............................................................. 109

5.6 Handling node Movement.............................................................................. 111

5.7 Performance evaluation.................................................................................. 113

5.7.1 Simulation .......................................................................................... 113

5.7.2 Results and discussion........................................................................ 115

5.8 Conclusions .................................................................................................... 120

6. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK...............................122

6.1 General Evaluation......................................................................................... 122

6.2 Contributions of the thesis.............................................................................. 123

6.3 Future Work ................................................................................................... 125

7. REFERENCES....................................................................................127

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