Chapter 10 Ad Hoc Wireless Multicast Routing
10.1 Multicasting in Wired Networks
In wired networks, changes in network topology are rare and link capacities are considered abundant. This is, however, not the case for mobile ad hoc networks. In a mobile ad hoc network, mobile nodes establish wireless connections among themselves on-the-fly, without any centralized coordinators (e.g., base stations, mobile repeaters, etc.). These connections can be direct connections (one radio hop) if the two communicating nodes are within radio range of each other. Otherwise, multi-hop connections are used in which packets are forwarded by one or more intermediate nodes until the destination node is reached. Because every mobile node can move, changes in network ...
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