Identifiable Route Retrieval for Multicasting in MANETS

Abstract

In modern days, Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are used widely for applications that need mobility while routing, more significantly for emergency and military operations. Routing information to nodes without a permanent infrastructure and with dynamically changing infrastructure is one of the greatest challenges. Multicasting is a more frequent requirement for such protection operations, which adds on to the level of difficulty while routing. In order to overcome this problem, the two protocols exist in the literature providing different solutions to delivering data to various destinations at mobility. However, these strategies are either of better complexity or the cost is high. In this paper, we propose Identifiable Route Retrieval for Multicasting (IR2M) in MANETs to use the route familiarity of nodes efficiently to construct routes to destinations. The performance of this algorithm is analyzed using the simulations in the network simulator.