Reliability of the message passing in multicast communications depends on ordering of messages in conformance with properties of used communication protocol. Among others, CBCAST is the protocol used for ordering and synchronization of messages in multicast communication. This study aims to discuss verification of message passing in the multicast communication against properties of the CBCAST p...

Multicast communication involves transmitting information from a single source node to multiple destination nodes, and is becoming an important requirement in high-performance networks. In this paper, we study multicast communication in a class of optical WDM networks with regular topologies such as linear arrays, rings, meshes, tori and hypercubes. For each type of network, we derive the neces...

Multicast communication plays a crucial role in Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs). MANETs provide low cost, self configuring devices for multimedia data communication in military battlefield scenarios, disaster and public safety networks (PSN). Multicast communication improves the network performance in terms of bandwidth consumption, battery power and routing overhead as compared to unicast for s...

Many emerging applications in mobile ad hoc networks involve group-oriented communication. Multicast is an efficient way of supporting group oriented applications, mainly in mobile environment with limited bandwidth and limited power. For using such applications in an adversarial environment as military, it is necessary to provide secure multicast communication. Key management is the fundamenta...

Multicast communication over mobile ad hoc networks has become popular. However, dependable and scalable multicast routing is required for mobile ad hoc networks even though network size and node mobility continue to increase. Therefore, this paper proposes a new hierarchical multicast routing scheme for such ad hoc networks. The proposed scheme introduces the inter-cluster group mesh structure...

EEcient multicast communication provides one of the best avenues for scaling bandwidth intensive applications. Current multicast routing mechanisms perform well for multicast groups which reach a long-term, steady-state distribution of membership. However, when the membership migrates throughout the network, current routing techniques may perform poorly. One type of multicast routing technique ...

The optimistic consistency scheme has been established with respect to data consistency and availability in distributed systems. Wireless networks are becoming popular in data communication and suitable for data sharing among users using multicast capability, but have hidden node problems. This paper proposes a simple data coherency protocol for mobile devices that is less data traffic in data ...

Our aim is to investigate reliable transmission for multicast communication and explore its relationship to multicast routing. We derive two characterizations that enable the comparison of routing algorithms and error recovery mechanisms with respect to the multicast tree topology, namely the probability mass function of successful receptions and the expected number of retransmissions needed to...