Multicasting Routing Protocols in Wireless Ad hoc Network – A Comprehensive Survey

Abstract—Wireless ad hoc networks and devices are becoming widespread as they support enormous applications anywhere and anytime. In wireless mobile communications, the mobile node is the only one hop away from base stations. The type of Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) has no constant structure or fundamental supervision. A network is required to guarantee a set of measurable pre specified service attributes to applications in terms of end-to-end performance using certain Quality of Service (QoS) parameters such as delay, bandwidth, and jitter. This paper reviews the various kinds of multicasting types and routing protocols in MANET. Keywords—Routing, Ad hoc network, Multicasting, Quality of service, Mobile ad hoc network