Multicast protocols are used to transfer the messages with a selected group of devices. Multicast is an effective method to maintenance group communication and decrease communicating energy. Multicasting can efficiently support a wide variety of applications. It is challenging to design a separate multicast routing protocol for sensor networks. The multicast routing protocols are fall under the...

This document defines FLUTE, a protocol for the unidirectional delivery of files over the Internet, which is particularly suited to multicast networks. The specification builds on Asynchronous Layered Coding, the base protocol designed for massively scalable multicast distribution.

A new video transport protocol for multicast agents in wireless mesh networks (WMNs) is proposed in this paper. The proposed protocol enables a significant reduction in the transmission overhead, while providing reliable communication for its use in multicast applications. This proposed reliable protocol provides a practical approach for an overlay peer-to-peer multicast facility supported with...

This article proposes a destination-driven on-demand multicast routing protocol (D-ODMRP) to improve the multicast forwarding efficiency in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). In D-ODMRP, the path from the multicast source to a multicast destination tends to use those paths passing through another multicast destination. If such multiple paths are available, the one leading to the least extra cost ...

Multicast can be done on link layer, IP layer, and application layer respectively. The application level overlay multicast is easier to deploy as compared to non overlay multicast but at the cost of efficiency. However, the utilization of these approaches is limited by current Internet architecture. Overlay and non overlay integrated solution have not yet been proposed for hybrid networks. In t...

An atomic multicast facility guarantees that a multicast message is delivered to the multicast group, and that every process receives messages in the same order. The availability of an atomic multicast facility greatly simpliies the implementation of many distributed system functions. Atomic multicast can be built on top of a reliable causal multicast by waiting until each processor in the grou...

There are many methods for making a multicast protocol "reliable". At one end of the spectrum, a reliable multicast protocol might offer atomicity guarantees, such as all-ornothing delivery, delivery ordering, and perhaps additional properties such as virtually synchronous addressing. At the other are protocols that use local repair to overcome transient packet loss in the network, offering “be...

This paper proposes a Delay-Based Multicast Routing Protocol (DBMRP) for multicast transmissions in ad hoc wireless networks. The DBMRP uses an on-demand, source-based multicast routing protocol, which is based on the tree forwarding methodology. The queuing delay and link delay of each visited mobile node are used to establish the multicast tree. In addition, DBMRP selects Displacement Nodes (...