Bandwidth Constrained Multicast Routing for TDMA-Based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Resource allocation and rate adaptation for multicast of real-time traffic in MANET

“…Its characteristics like centre less, multi-hop, no infrastructure, dynamical reconfiguration and self-recovery suit much in dynamic environment due to frequently changing topology and random movement of nodes (Sreenath et al, 2012;Tan et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2002). MANET issues like radio power limitations, power consumption and channel utilisation, makes the mobile host a hard task to communicate directly with other hosts in a single hop fashion which increases the demand of multi-hop scenarios where several intermediate hosts retransmit the packets sent by the source host before reaching the destination (Zhen and Long, 2013;Chen et al, 2002). MANET has a wide area of applications including last mile broadband internet access, audio and video streaming in emergency and tactical applications for group interoperation, multimedia streaming such as P2P TV and YouTube in commercial applications (Zhen and Long, 2013;Oh et al, 2008).…”

“…MANET has to face issues like radio power limitations, power consumption, and channel utilisation (Zhen and Long, 2013). Users wishing to use multimedia applications such as video conferencing and live movie streaming require efficient QoS multicast strategies (Narsimha et al, 2008).…”

“…require group management, multicast routing, resource handling, multiple destinations (Mallapur et al, 2009). Multicasting, a one-to-many communication, is influenced by the increasing importance of real-time and multimedia applications with different QoS requirements, and effectively communicates among multiple hosts in a network (Narsimha et al, 2008;Zhen and Long, 2013).…”

“…Increasing the path shared reduces the overall bandwidth consumption. Multicast communication in a resource-limited wireless network utilise wireless broadcast advantage completely and hence increase the applications as in multimedia applications with different QoS requirements, e.g., audio/video conferencing and long-distance consultation (Zhen and Long, 2013). MANET has very limited bandwidth and the non-ideal physical channel causes the unpredictable resource fluctuations.…”

Quality of Service Routing and Mechanisms for Improving Video Streaming over Mobile Wireless Ad hoc Networks

“…Nevertheless, in this thesis, focus is on reactive QoS routing protocols and mainly those solutions based on the well-known AODV routing protocol. For example, Zhen and Wenzhong in [66] have proposed an approach which uses AODV as routing protocol within a TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) network. However, TDMA has a less efficient controlled access scheme because of the lack of infrastructure and the peer-to-peer nature of ad hoc networks.…”