Topology Stability-Aware Multicast Protocol for MANETs.
J. Mocito, O. Denysyuk, L. Rodrigues, and H. Miranda
Selected sections of this report were published in the proceedings of
the 36th Annual IEEE Conference on
Local Computer Networks, (LCN), Bonn, Germany, October
2011. (short paper).
Abstract
Multicast is an important building block for many applications in
MANETs, including data dissemination, service discovery,
publish-subscribe, among others. Therefore, it has been widely
studied and many solutions can be found in the literature. However,
most existing multicast protocols are tailored to a specific type of
mobility pattern and therefore are unable to excel in face of
heterogeneous topology stability conditions. This paper proposes and
evaluates \protname, a Topology Stability-Aware Multicast Protocol
for MANETs that combines the efficiency of structured routing with
the robustness of optimized flooding, adapting its forwarding
mechanism according to locally perceived mobility conditions.
Also available extended report (pdf)
Luís Rodrigues