Mobile networks that handle multicast communication services, such as video-ondemand, news-on-demand etc., require a kind of reliable and secure point-to-point, point-tomultipoint specific group communications for sophisticated organisation of multicast communications. A reliable multicast tree is an efficient connectivity between the source node and the multicast group members through the depe...

The paper presents a proposal of a new methodology that evaluates multicast routing algorithms in packet-switched networks with an application of fuzzy sets. Proposed multicriteria mechanism evaluate representative multicast routing algorithms: KPP, CSPT and MLRA (Multicast Routing Algorithm with Lagrange Relaxation) that minimize cost of paths between source and each destination node using Lag...

The coded caching scheme originally proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) transmits multicast messages from a server to users equipped with caches via capacitated shared-link was shown be information theoretically optimal within constant multiplicative factor. This work extends the MAN class of two-hop wired-wireless networks including one connected fronthaul links layer H helper nodes (acces...

Mobile ad hoc network is a wireless mobile network that does not have any base station or other central control infrastructures. Design of efficient multicast routing protocols in such networks is challenging. Shared tree routing protocol is a widely used multicast routing protocol in ad hoc network. However, it has problems encountered in end-to-end delay. In this paper we have proposed a prot...

This paper presents a thorough survey of current work addressing multicast routing protocols with low control overhead in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). There are so many different issues and solutions which witness the need of group management in ad hoc wireless networks. The goal of a multicast routing protocol for MANETs is to support the propagation of data from a sender to all the receiv...

This paper presents Beacon, a technique that exploits the advantages of IP multicast to provide a low overhead system for network topology monitoring. Beacon is a self-organizing system which builds a self similar network topology that enables the system to converge very quickly even at a high degree of scalability. Another property of the Beacon system is that it does not require any interdoma...