NAMP: Neighbor Aware Multicast Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Al-Sakib Pathan¹, Muhammad Monowar², Md. Rabbi³, Muhammad Alam¹, and Choong Hong¹

¹ Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, South Korea

² Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

³ CSE Departments, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh

Abstract: A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) represents a system of wireless mobile nodes that can freely and dynamically self-organize into arbitrary and temporary network topologies without the presence of any fixed communication infrastructure. Reliable routing and robustness of the network are two important issues for MANETs. In this paper we propose Neighbour Aware Multicast Routings Protocol (NAMP), which is a tree based, hybrid multicast routing protocol for ad hoc networks. Our routing protocol aims at achieving robustness in the ad hoc networks as well as the improvement of the end-to-end delivery of data packets. For route creation, the protocol uses neighboring information and dominant pruning approach. It uses secondary forwarder method for route maintenance.

Keywords: Ad hoc networks, dominant pruning, secondary forwarder list, multicasting, NAMP.