Performance of Topological Multicast Routing Algorithms on Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

This paper presents the performance of topological multicast routing algorithms on mobile wireless ad-hoc networks. Flooding and On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP) are simulated and compared with Topological Multicast Routing Protocol (ToMuRo). The scenario evaluated considers one multicast transmitter and one, two, and three multicast receivers under various mobility and transmission ranges. The behavior of 250 nodes is evaluated in terms of end to end delay (EED), jitter, packet delivery ratio, and overhead. Results reveal that ToMuRo performs better in terms of packet delivery ratio and overhead, flooding has the best behavior with jitter and ODMRP with respect to EED. In general, ToMuRo has the best performance compared to the other algorithms.