Multicasting is a fundamental networking primitive utilized by numerous applications. This
also holds true for cognitive radio networks which have been proposed as a solution to the …

Abstract The Channel Assignment (CA) is an efficient tool to exploit multiple non-
overlapping channels to minimize interference and enhance the capacity of the wireless …

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) introduce a new type of network that has been applied
over the last few years. One of the most important developing issues in WMNs is multicast …

In this paper, an intellectual energy efficient multicast routing protocol is proposed. It
achieves enhanced performance over On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP) …

QoS multicast routing is a non-linear combinatorial optimization problem. It tries to find a
multicast routing tree with minimal cost that can satisfy constraints such as bandwidth, delay …

Multicast routing is a crucial issue in wireless networks in which the same content should be
delivered to a group of recipients simultaneously. Multicast is also considered as a key …

Multicast routing is generally an efficient mechanism for delivering identical content to a
group of receivers. Multicast is also deemed a key enabling service for a wealth of audio and …

Wireless community networks (WCNs) have emerged as a cost-effective ubiquitous
broadband connectivity solution, offering a wide range of services in a given geographical …

Multicast is a key networking service, enabling one–shot delivery of information from a
source to multiple destinations and is considered underlying for collaborating multimedia …

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) have emerged as a promising, yet challenging, solution to
enhance spectrum utilization, thanks to the technology of cognitive radios. A well-known …