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An ant colony‐based, receiver‐initiated multicast mesh protocol for collaborative applications of mobile ad hoc networks
Author(s) -
Deepalakshmi P.,
Radhakrishnan S.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.366
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 2161-3915
DOI - 10.1002/ett.2574
Subject(s) - multicast , computer science , computer network , protocol independent multicast , pragmatic general multicast , distance vector multicast routing protocol , xcast , reliable multicast , distributed computing , geocast , source specific multicast , network packet , ip multicast , wireless ad hoc network , optimized link state routing protocol , wireless , routing protocol , telecommunications
Mobile ad hoc (ODMRP), another mesh‐based multicast approach for mobile ad hoc networks in two scenarios, namely typical scenario and collaborative scenario. The simulation is carried out in NS‐2 and comparison is conducted for the metrics packet delivery ratio, group reliability ratio, and end‐to‐end average delay by varying node mobility and by increasing number of senders in each group. From the results, we observed that the proposed protocol performs well in all cases. Especially for collaborative scenarios in which number of senders is high within the group, RIMM outperforms ODMRP. Also, we observed that probability of reaching multicast members within the mesh is always high for RIMM than for ODMRP. For certain simulations, we compared RIMM with other receiver‐initiated mesh‐based multicast approaches namely Protocol for Unified Multicasting through multicast Announcement and an ant‐based method called Multicast for Ad Hoc Networks with Swarm Intelligence and found that RIMM has better packet delivery ratio and comparable control overhead. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.