Fuzzy-controlled source-initiated multicasting (FSIM) in ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Anuradha Banerjee;Paramartha Dutta

  • Affiliations:
  • Kalyani Govt. Engg. College, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India;Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

  • Venue:
  • ICDCIT'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Ad hoc networks are collections of mobile nodes communicating using wireless media without any fixed infrastructure. Existing multicast protocols fall short in a harsh ad hoc mobile environment, since node mobility causes conventional multicast tree to rapidly become outdated. The amount of bandwidth required for building up a multicast tree is less than that required for other delivery structures, since a tree avoids unnecessary duplication of data. In this article, we propose FSIM, a fuzzy controlled source-initiated intelligent multicast routing scheme that takes into account estimated network evolution in terms of residual energy, link stability, position of receivers in the multicast tree etc. Extensive simulation experiments have been conducted to compare performance of FSIM with state-of-the-art tree and mesh-based multicast protocols. The results with respect to a wide range of input parameters show that FSIM attains significantly higher packet delivery ratio at much lesser cost than its competitors.