Engineering of Replica Voting Protocols for Energy-Efficiency in Data Delivery
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Backpressure multicast congestion control in mobile ad-hoc networks
CoNEXT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference
Wireless multicast cross-layer framework for rate allocation: protocol design
International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology
Cross-layer optimal rate allocation for heterogeneous wireless multicast
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on fairness in radio resource management for wireless networks
Multicast routing protocols in mobile ad hoc networks: a comparative survey and taxonomy
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Connectivity-based reliable multicast MAC protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Dynamic rate adaptation for wireless multicast
MILCOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Military communications
A new cross-layer unstructured P2P file sharing protocol over mobile ad hoc network
AST/UCMA/ISA/ACN'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Advances in computer science and information technology
Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol for Wireless Multicast Over OFDMA-Based MANETs
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
A multirate MAC protocol for reliable multicast in multihop wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Minimum-Cost broadcast through varying-size neighborcast
ALGOSENSORS'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Algorithms for Sensor Systems, Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Autonomous Mobile Entities
Efficient Retransmission Methods in Wireless MAC Protocol for Multicast
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Reliable multicast MAC protocol for wireless ad hoc networks
UIC'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
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In an IEEE 802.11 based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) multicast packets are generally forwarded as one hop broadcast; mainly to reach all the multicast members in the neighborhood in a single transmission. Because of the broadcast property of the forwarding, packets suffer from increased instances of hidden terminal problem. Mobility of nodes makes things more difficult, and unlike unicast transmissions where MAC can detect the movement of a nexthop by making several retries, it is not possible in case of multicast forwarding. To address these issues, we propose a multicast aware MAC protocol (MMP) for MANETs. The basic objective of MMP is to provide a MAC layer support for multicast traffic. This is done by attaching an Extended Multicast Header (EMH) by the multicast agent, which provides the address of the nexthop nodes that are supposed to receive the multicast packet. The MAC layer in MMP uses the EMH field to support an ACK based data delivery. After sending the data packet, the transmitter waits for the ACK from each of its destinations in a strictly sequential order. A retransmission of the multicast packet is performed only if the ACK from any of the nodes in EMH is missing. We compare MMP with IEEE 802.11 and results show that MMP substantially improves the performance of multicast packet delivery in MANETs without creating much MAC overhead. In addition, MMP provides a better mechanism to detect the movement of its nexthop members.