Broadcasting, Multicasting and Geocasting

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• The Broadcast Storm

  • Broadcasting in a MANET

  • Flooding-Generated Broadcast Storm

  • Redundancy Analysis

  • Rebroadcasting Schemes

    • Common Characteristics

      • Design Considerations: Jitter and RDT

      • Loop Prevention

    • Categories and Protocols

      • Simple Flooding

      • Probability-Based Methods

      • Area-Based Methods

      • Neighbor Knowledge Methods

• Multicasting

  • Issues in Providing Multicast in a MANET

  • Multicast Routing Protocols

    • Tree-Based Approaches

      • Ad Hoc Multicast Routing Protocol Utilizing Increasing Id-Numbers

      • Multicast Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Protocol

      • Lightweight Adaptive Multicast (LAM)

      • Location Guided Tree Construction Algorithm for Small Group Multicast

      • Multicast Zone Routing

      • Multicast Optimized Link State Routing

      • Other Protocols

    • Mesh-Based Approaches

      • On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol

      • Core-Assisted Mesh Protocol

      • Forwarding Group Multicast Protocol

      • Other Protocols

    • Stateless Approaches

      • Differential Destination Multicast

      • DSR Simple Multicast and Broadcast Protocol

    • Hybrid Approaches

      • Ad Hoc Multicast Routing Protocol

      • Multicast Core-Extraction Distributed Ad Hoc Routing

      • Mobility-Based Hybrid Multicast Routing

  • Comparison

• Geocasting

  • Geocast Routing Protocols

    • Data-Transmission Oriented

      • Location-Based Multicast

      • Voronoi Diagram Based Geocasting

      • GeoGRID

    • Route Creation Oriented

      • GeoTORA

      • Mesh-Based Geocast Routing Protocol

  • Comparison

• Conclusions and Future Directions

• Homework Questions/Simulation Projects

• References