Paper Info
Title
An Active Multicasting Mechanism For Mobile Hosts In Wireless Networking Environments
Abstract
To support mobile multicasting in wireless networks. we present a new active multicasting mechanism which makes use of the state characteristic of multicast agent. In this mechanism, a multicast agent just locates the position for roaming hosts when it does not forward multicast packets. Upon reception Of multicast packets, the multicast agent adjusts the service range to achieve an appropriate balance between routing efficiency and the overhead of multicast tree reconstruction. Therefore, a lot of unnecessary tree reconstructions are eliminated (luring the time when none multicast packet is transferred and multicast delivery path is near optimal because of the limited service range of multicast agent in the active state. To justify the effectiveness of our proposed scheme, we develop an analytical model to evaluate the signaling, overhead. Our performance analysis shows that the proposed scheme can significantly reduce the system overhead and multicast routing is near optimal. The other important contribution is the novel analytical approach in evaluating the performance of mobile multicast routing protocol.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1587/transinf.E92.D.1826
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile multicast, active multicasting mechanism, wireless network, routing
Protocol Independent Multicast,Source-specific multicast,Multicast address,Computer science,Xcast,Computer network,Pragmatic General Multicast,Multicast,Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol,IP multicast
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E92D
10
1745-1361
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ping Wang17818.83
Fuqiang Liu227024.48