Analysis of K-Connected MANETs for QoS Multicasting using EDMSTs Based on Connectivity Index

The survivability of the network is closely related to the connectivity of the network. For many network applications such as a sensor network/ad hoc network for battlefield monitoring or wild fire tracking etc., survivability is one of most important requirements, and therefore a number of related problems are proposed. In this paper we study the survivability with respect to multicast route failure tolerance in K-connected MANET. We analyze the key issues namely connectivity, route failure tolerance and energy of the network. These issues can optimize the design of the routing protocol by means of cross layer interaction across the layers of the network. This paper analyzes the K-connected MANET for various parameters namely connectivity, no. of links, no. of spanning trees, no. of EDMSTs using graph theory metric, connectivity index.