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Survey on Tree Based, Mesh Based and Stateless Multicast Protocols in MANET

S. Rajarajeswari, P.Angaiyarkanni, A.Arockia Selvaraj

Multicast routing is an effective way to establish the group communication when the same message or the same stream of data needs to be sent to numerous receivers. Multicast routing has concerned a lot of attention in group oriented computing due to supporting data transmission from a single source node to multiple destinations parallel. The benefit of multicast routing lies in its capability of reducing the communication cost and saving the network resources by sending only one copy of the message over the shared link leading to different destinations. In general, this survey classifies the multicast routing protocols into three categories based on the underlying routing structure: treeâ�?based, meshâ�?based and stateless multicast routing protocols. It summarizes the tree based , mesh based and stateless protocols in MANET and compares their objectives, performances, merit and demerits