In this paper, we propose a new multicast routing protocol, named weight-based clustering multicast protocol (WCMP), for mobile ad hoc networks. The goal of this work is to improve multicasting performance in ad hoc networks by efficient use of the available knowledge of the networks. Keyword—multicasting, routing, mobile ad hoc networks

A mobile ad hoc network is a collection of autonomous nodes that communicate with each other by forming a multi-top wireless network. Different from conventional wireless networks, the resource of the nodes in ad hoc networks is limited and there may be tens of thousands of low-power energy constrained nodes in ad hoc networks. As such, the costs of the nodes resource and the network size shoul...

Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANETs) is collection of mobile/semi mobile nodes with no existing pre-established infrastructure, forming a temporary network. Mobile Ad hoc Networks are highly dynamic networks. Quality of Service (QoS) routing in such networks is usually limited by the network breakage due to either node mobility or energy depletion of the mobile nodes. Another issue that effects the Q...

A mobile ad hoc network is a collection of mobile wireless nodes that can dynamically form a network without necessarily using any pre-existing network infrastructure. In general, routes between nodes in an ad hoc network may include multiple hops. Due to the potential ease of deployment, many practical applications have been conceived for ad hoc networks, including personal area networking, ho...

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Mobile ad hoc networks are wireless multi-hop networks with a completely distributed organization. The dynamic nature of these networks imposes many challenges on mobile ad hoc routing protocols. Current routing protocols do not take into the account the network context and therefore their performance is only optimal under certain network conditions. This paper proposes a novel concept for rout...