Impact of Mobility and Node Speed on Multicast Routing in Wireless MANETs
Nagendra Sah
Nagendra Sah, Assistant Professor, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India.
Manuscript received on September 27, 2012. | Revised Manuscript received on October 12, 2012. | Manuscript published on October 30, 2012. | PP: 20-24 | Volume-2 Issue-1, October 2012. | Retrieval Number: A0742102112 /2012©BEIESP
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Abstract: Mobile Ad-hoc networks are characterized as networks without any physical connections. In these networks there is no fixed topology due to the mobility of nodes, interference, multi-path propagation and path loss. One particularly challenging environment for multicast is a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET), where the network topology can change randomly and rapidly, at unpredictable times. As a result, several specific multicast routing protocols for MANET have been proposed. This paper evaluates well known multicast routing protocols, like on-demand multicast routing protocol (ODMRP), protocol independent protocol- dense mode (PIM-DM) and multicast open shortest path first (MOSPF) under various ranges of MANET scenarios based on mobility and node speed. The simulation environment is Qualnet-5.0.
Keywords: Computer Network, Routing Protocols, Path loss Models.