Unicast and Multicast Routing Protocols for Manets

Pages:288-290
Munish Kumar (Department of Comp Engg, Govt. Polytechnic, Hisar, Haryana)

Today various applications in network technology, the use of multicasting within MANETs is much beneficial. Every routing protocol has its advantages and disadvantages and aims at a specific application. The expected standard for routing protocols in the Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks is very likely to combine some of the most competitory schemes. Thus the goal for a routing protocol is to minimize its control traffic overhead while at the same time, it should be capable of rapidly to link failure and addition caused by node movements. In this review paper, typical routing protocols based on unicast or multicast routing schema selected from the class of similar approaches in mobile ad hoc network routing are discussed. There is also a characteristic comparison for typical representation of routing protocol designed for MANETs. MANETs can decrease the cost of wireless communication and increase the efficiency and throughput of the wireless link between two nodes whenever we are sending multiple copies of the same messages by accomplishment the inherent broadcasting properties of wireless transmission. In place of sending same data through multiple unicasts, multicasting decrease channel capacity consumption, sender nodes and routers processing, energy utilization, and data delivery delay which are important for MANETs. If the mobile nodes in the MANET move too quickly, they have to repair to broadcast to achieve node to node communication.