… of ad hoc networks, it is necessary to investigate and discern the applicability of existing ad
hoc multicast … a detailed description and comparison of ad hoc multicast protocols. We also …

… This paper includes new technical trends such as overlay multicast, network coding-based
multicast, energyefficient multicast etc. and the classification of the multicast …

… Thus multicast routing is a challenging research problem [2-12]. There are several … the
multicast algorithm by the mobile ad hoc network environment. The existing multicast algorithms …

… multicasting through announcements (PUMA) in ad-hoc networks, which establishes and
maintains a shared mesh for each multicast … tree-based multicast routing in ad hoc networks. …

… ad-hoc multicast … mobile ad-hoc network multicast routing protocols, which are comprehensive
and up-to-date. To accomplish this goal, we identify those basic components of a multicast …

… However, most MANETs do not support multicast … Certainly, multicast might play an important
role in ad hoc networks … issue in future mobile ad hoc networks that is multicast routing. In …

… , multicast communication is more applicable for ad hoc … a typical ad hoc environment, it is
mostly the case that the mobile nodes … We propose a new multicast routing protocol for ad hoc …

… multicast routing. AMRoute[11] is an ad hoc multicast protocol that uses the overlay multicast
… Bidirectional unicast tunnels are used to connect the multicast group members into a virtual …

… mobile ad hoc networks. The algorithms proposed in this paper are based upon a multicast
… from protocols we previously proposed for routing in mobile ad hoc networks [15]. In [15], we …

… on multicast capacity of random wireless networks. We show that the total multicast capacity
is Θ( … In Section 5, we study the multicast capacity bounds for group-multicast and the …