A preservation-based multicast (RBM) routing protocol for mobile networks: initial route construction phase

  • Authors:
  • M. Scott Corson;Stephen G. Batsell

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Maryland, College Park;Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Networks
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

We propose a combined multicast routing, resource reservation and admission control protocol, termed Reservation-Based Multicast (RBM), that borrows the “Rendez-vous Point” or “Core” concept from multicast routing algorithms proposed for the Internet, but which is intended for operation in mobile networks and routes hierarchically-encoded data streams based on user-specified fidelity requirements, real-time delivery thresholds and prevailing network bandwidth constraints. The protocol exhibits the fully distributed operation and receiver-initiated orientation of these proposed algorithms; but, unlike them, the protocol is tightly coupled to a class of underlying, distributed, unicast routing protocols thereby facilitating operation in a dynamic topology. This paper focuses on the initial route construction phase, assumed to occur during a static “snapshot” of the dynamic topology, and is therefore applicable to fixed networks as well, e.g. the Internet.