Qos Enabled Communication Support over Multicast Ad Hoc Networks: An Overview

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Qos Enabled Communication Support over Multicast Ad Hoc
Networks: An Overview
Amit Chopra*, Dr. Rajneesh Gujral**
* PhD Research Scholar, CSE Department, M. M. Engineering College, M. M. University, Ambala, India
**Professor, CSE Department, M. M. Engineering College, M. M. University, Ambala, India
ABSTRACT
Multicasting Routing in Mobile Ad hoc networks faces various issues related to Quality of Services (QoS)
which suffer from behavior of routing protocols, topology, group management, security and group mobility.
QoS constraints can be categorized by their application domains also i.e. for military, we need to maintain QoS
for confidentiality and data integrity by compromising with control overhead, in case of real time applications,
we need to maintain QoS for throughput by maintaining jitter, delay and packet delivery ratio etc. In this paper,
we will give an overview of the different approaches that have been recently developed to resolve the issues
related to QoS support over Multicast Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.
Keywords- MANETs,Multicast Routing, QoS.
I. INTRODUCTION
Multicast based communication is an important
network service, which sends the data from a source
to multiple destinations simultaneously by creating
copies only when the links to the destinations split.
Multicast routing tree can be constructed to transmit
the data from the source to all the destinations with a
minimum multicast tree cost that is used to evaluate
the utilization of network resources [1]. As shown in
Figure:-1, a multicast packet is transmitted to all
members of its with the same reliability as regular
unicast packets. Multicasting can reduce the cost of
communication, consumption of bandwidth, sender
and router processing and delivery delay [2].
Ad hoc networks support various applications for
civilian and defense operations where set up and
maintenance of infrastructure based network may not
be feasible. Efficient communication over ad hoc
networks can be achieved using multicasting
protocols [3] with the provision of Quality-of-Service
which focuses on the various parameters such as
Faded Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Residual Channel
Capacity, Connection Life Time, handover delays,
End-to-End delays, Jitter, packet loss ratios, Packet
Delivery Ratio etc and it very challenging to manage
QoS support over Multicast Mobile Ad hoc network
due to unique characteristics of MANETs. Multicast
Ad hoc network should support the real time
applications support with the provision of QoS
constraints which are used to ensure QoS enabled
communication. QoS provision can be ensured on the
different layers such as application layer, network
layer, data link layer, transport layer and physical
layer. To maintain QoS, we can also use some
approaches i.e. Congestion and Contention Control,
Bit Error Control and Cross layer communication etc.
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Figure:-1 Multicast communication over
MANETs
II.CHALLENGES FOR MULTICAST AD HOC
ROUTING PROTOCOLS
Traditional wired Multicast protocols are not
suitable for ad hoc networks because routing tree
becomes unstable due to the dynamic network
topology. Ad hoc networks have different resource
constraints like limited bandwidth, error prone shared
channel, limited energy resources, security threats
etc. Due to all these facts, it is very difficult to design
a multicast protocol for such kind of networks.
Following are the major issues related to the
multicast routing protocols [3] having impact over
the QoS support:
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I. Reliability: In Multicast Ad hoc network, there
may be packet drop due to the dynamic nature of
network topology that can reduce the network
performance and increase the delay and jitter. So
multicast routing should be able to operate in
different situations such as mobile environment,
heavy traffic load, scalability in order to achieve high
packet delivery [3].
II. Efficiency: Multicast Ad hoc network has limited
bandwidth and efficiency of multicast routing
protocol is defined as the ratio of the total number of
data packets received by the receivers to the total
number of (data and control) packets transmitted [3]
but unfair allocation of shared channel may lead to
contention over the network.
III. Resource Management: Multicast Ad hoc
networks contain the various nodes arranged in
different groups having limited power resources and
memory. Multicast routing protocol should be able to
manage all these resources for all groups [3].
IV. Scalability: A multicast routing protocol should
be able to provide an acceptable level of service in a
network with a large number of nodes [4]. It is very
important to take into account the nondeterministic
characteristics (power and capacity limitations,
random mobility etc.)
V. Control overhead: Multicast groups are managed
by transmitting and exchanging the control packets
that consumes unnecessary bandwidth. Multicast
Routing protocol should be able to manage the
groups by using limited control packets [3].
VI. Quality of Services: QoS Support is essential for
ad hoc Multicast communication and it is quite
challenging to maintain it over MANETs . It deals
with the different QoS parameters such as end to end
delay, Packet delivery ratio, Routing Load,
bandwidth constraints, Packet Loss Ratio etc [3].
VII. Security: Secure communication over ad hoc
Multicast networks is another major challenge due to
dynamic behavior of groups/group
members/topology and it is very difficult to manage
the security keys and its distribution for each group
and individual group member [3][13].
VIII. Support of Unicast Routing Protocols:
Multicast routing protocols may require the support
of unicast routing protocols and it is difficult to
manage and exchange the routing information for
heterogeneous routing environments [3].
IX. Mobility: Multicast routing protocols must adopt
the mobility of nodes. A Multicast group or any
group member can move to another location using
different mobility patterns. So routing protocol
should be able to manage the communication in
highly mobile environments [3][8][9].
III. MULTICAST AD HOC NETWORK
MODEL
Multicast ad hoc network model deals with the
following layers:
I. MAC Layer: MAC Layer handles the channel
scheduling, maintains the multicast state information
and controls transmission and reception of the
packets.
II. Routing Layer: Routing Layer maintains the
information related to network topology, route cache,
Unicast/Multicast sessions etc.
III. Application Layer: Application Layer consumes
the services provided by the Routing layer and
responsible for session initialization and termination.
It also deals with the data packet controllers. [3]
IV. CLASSIFICATION OF MULTICAST AD
HOC ROUTING PROTOCOLS
Multicast routing protocols can be classified on
the basis of Topology, Initialization approach,
Maintenance approach etc.Table:1 below describes
the classification of some multicast ad hoc routing
protocols:[3]
Multicast
Routing
Protocols
M
A
O
D
V
M
Z
R
P
O
D
M
R
P
D
C
M
P
F
G
M
P
C
A
M
P
B
E
M
R
P
A
B
A
M
P
L
B
M
A
M
R
O
T
E
Supported
Topology
Source
Tree
X X X X
Shared
Tree
X
Mesh X X X X
Hybrid X
Initialization Approach
Source X X X X
Receiver X X X X
Hybrid X X
Maintenance Approach
Hard X X X X X X
Soft X X X X
Table 1: Classification of Multicast Ad Hoc routing
Protocols
V. LITERATURE REVIEW
Lot of research has been already done to provide
the QoS support over Mobile Ad hoc Networks but it
faces some different challenges and issues those can
be considered for further investigation. Researchers
explored the different issues related to Quality of

services and developed various solutions to improve
the QoS support for multicast ad hoc networks. Now
we will discuss the research done by some authors in
the relevant field.
Salim Bitam et al. [6] proposed a QoS multicast
routing protocol called MQBM for mobile ad hoc
networks based upon the bees communication. It
finds the routes between the source and the head of
multicast group responsible to communicate the
packet toward the group members. Figure:1 below
shows the basic MQBM components on bee area.
Beehive:
Source Node
Figure 2: Projection of MQBM components on bee
area[6]
A node can transmit the data only if average end-
to-end delay and the average bandwidth satisfy the
QoS constraints. Simulation results show the
efficiency and the performance of the proposed
protocol after comparisons against MAODV in terms
of the average end-to-end delay and the average
bandwidth as QoS metrics. As per the complexity
analysis, route discovery phase uses O(pD1N+N)
time units Where p:= stochastic broadcast ratio
(0<p<1), Dn:= Neighbors, N:=Node. Maximum
packets transmitted during route discovery can be
defined as O((pD1+D2+D3)N) packets during the
routes discovery. Finally we can say that MQBM
performs in a linear complexity.
Zheng Sihai et al. [7] proposed a QoS-based
multicast routing protocol, called QMMRP. This
protocol utilizes the entropy of node (which is a
metric to measure the stability of ink) and bandwidth
reservation policy to find a stable link with enough
bandwidth. Simulations results show that the network
load of QMMRP protocol is much higher than that of
ODMRP protocol. On the basis of experiments it can
be concluded QMMRP performs better than the
ODMRP. In case of unidirectional links complexity
of QMMRP is O(n2
).
V. R. Budyal et al. [8] proposed a fuzzy agent
based QoS multicast routing protocol for MANET by
extending ODMRP. A group of agents are used to
form a mesh based multicast network and a fuzzy
logic system is used to select QoS nodes which are
selected on the basis of different parameters like
speed, energy and delay etc. For packet routing, QoS
mesh is used. The simulation results show the better
packet delivery ratio with increase in number of
nodes and mobility of the nodes.
G. Santhi et al. [9] proposed a Fuzzy cost based Multi
constrained Quality of Service Routing (FCMQR)
protocol that selects an optimal path by using
multiple independent QoS metrics such as bandwidth,
end-to-end delay, number of intermediate hops etc.
This is based on multi criterion objective fuzzy
measure in which all the available resources of the
path are converted into a single metric fuzzy cost.
The path with the maximum lifetime (which is based
on Mobility prediction) and minimum fuzzy cost will
be considered to be the optimal one and used for 10
transmissions. Simulation results show that the
FCMQR provides an accurate and efficient method to
estimate and evaluate the QoS routing stability and
cost in dynamic mobile networks.
INPUT OUTPUT
Bandwidth End to End Delay Hops Cost
1 1 3 1
2 1 3 0
5 1 3 0
1 2 2 2
2 2 2 2
5 2 2 2
1 5 4 6
2 5 4 6
5 5 4 6
Table:2 Fuzzy Logic Rules [9]
Table:2 shows the three inputs and one output
variable used for fuzzy logic. Each input variable has
3 linguistic states and the total number of possible
fuzzy inference rules is 3*3*3 = 27. Values for
input/output can Vary from low=:0, Low=:1,
Medium=:2, Short=:3, Long=:4, High=:5, Very
high=:6. [9]
Usha Devi G et al. [10] evaluated the different
multicast protocols (MAODV, ODMRP, PIM,
MOSPF) over the ad hoc network using various QoS
metric constraints like throughput, packet delivery
ratio & average end to end delay etc. Simulation
results show that different protocols have different
output. MAODV performs better than others but it
has higher Average end-to end delay. PIM and
MOSPF have lower average end-to-end delay as
compared to ODMRP and MAODV but having less
throughput.
Ting Lu et al. [11] proposed a genetic energy-
efficient delay-constrained multicast routing
algorithm to resolve the QoS multicast problem. It
depends on bounded end-to-end delay and minimum
energy cost of the multicast tree. This algorithm is a
source-based algorithm that calculates the route on
the basis of energy consumption as well as on the
end-to-end delay. Results show that the proposed
algorithm is effective and efficient.
G. Santhi et al. [12] described a method to select
best paths from source to destination node in
MANETs using fuzzy cost which is calculated on the
basis of multiple independent QoS metrics such as
bandwidth, end to end delay and number of nodes to
transfer data from the source to the destination.
Authors compared their method with MAODV
R
1 R
R
R
S
S
S
S
S
S
Bees
Intermediate Nodes
Receiver Group

protocol and results show that proposed method
performs well.
Hui Xia et al. [13] presented the concept of trust
into multicast routing problem which is made as
another QoS constraint, and finally they proposed a
multicast trusted routing algorithm with QoS multi-
constraints based on a modified ant colony algorithm.
According to this algorithm, ants move constantly on
the network in order to find out an optimal
constrained multicast security tree. Results show that
proposed algorithm can easily find the feasible
solution to solve constrained multicast security
routing issues.
P.Deepalakshmi et al. [14] proposed a source
initiated mesh and soft-state based QoS Probabilistic
multicast routing protocol (SQMP) for mobile ad hoc
networks. SQMP finds the routes on the basis of ant
colony’s route discovery principle. SQMP uses
probabilistic forwarding and soft state to build the
forwarding decisions with QoS constraints which are
automatically reflected to the mobility of nodes in ad
hoc networks. Authors compared this method with
ODMRP protocol with different parameters like
packet delivery ratio and number of packets/bytes
transmitted per data packet received.
M. M. Qabajeh et al. [15] proposed a hierarchical
scheme for multicast routing protocol with multiple
QoS constrains over mobile ad hoc networks. This
scheme is optimized to utilize the limited resources
and reduces the overhead significantly. It searches for
QoS paths from a single source to a set of
destinations. As shown in Figure:3 below, entire
physical space is divided into equal size hexagonal
cells and a leader (CL) and backup leader (CLB)
node is selected those are responsible to maintain
network topology.
CL node
CLB node
Ordinary Node
Figure:3 Network Architecture [15]
The CL node maintains information about all the
nodes in a cell including their positions and Cell IDs
and it is responsible to maintain information about
the CLs of the neighboring cells as shown in the
figure: above. The CLB node maintains a backup
copy of the data saved at the CL to avoid any data
loss when the CL node is in off state or it is moving.
By knowing the coordinates of a node position, nodes
can perform self-mapping algorithm of their physical
locations onto the current cell and calculate its
Cell_ID easily. Authors compared the purposed
scheme with the another multicast routing protocol,
called Demand Multicast Routing Protocol and
results show that it performs well by reducing control
over head with less packet drop ratio.
Salim Bitam et al. [16] proposed a novel bee
colony optimization algorithm (BLA) for QoS
multicast routing problem (QoS-MRP) over vehicular
ad hoc networks as NP-Complete problem with
multiple constraints. BLA solved the QoS-MRP by
achieving different constraints i.e. cost, delay, jitter
and minimum bandwidth. Results show the
performance of this method by comparing with
genetic algorithm (GA), bees algorithm (BA) and
marriage in honey bees optimization (MBO)
algorithm using same QoS constraints.
Xingwei Wang et al. [17] proposed a QoS
multicast routing protocol, called CogMRT. Route
discovery done hop by hop and each node is
responsible to manage local route information.
Authors used competitive co evolutionary algorithm
(CCA) for the multicast tree construction that adopts
novel encoding method and genetic operations. They
used NS-2 for implementation and simulation results
show the effectiveness of CogMRT over the
traditional routing protocols.
Xu Li et al. [18] proposed a Multicast Ad hoc
On-demand Vector with Backup Branches
(MAODV-BB) that is an enhancement of MAODV
by merging the advantages of the tree structure and
the mesh structure. It uses shorter tree branches and
constructs a multicast tree with backup branches.
Mathematical analysis and simulation results show
that the MAODV-BB protocol can manage the
quality of services even during heavy network load.
Ting Lu et al. [19] focused on the power
consumption in ad hoc networks and presented an
energy-efficient genetic algorithm to reduce the
power consumption and it depends on bounded end-
to-end delay and minimum energy cost of the
multicast tree. Simulation results show the
effectiveness of proposed scheme.
Ya-li WANG et al. [20] proposed an ant colony-
based multi-constrained QoS energy-saving routing
algorithm (IAMQER) algorithm based on the
analysis of local node information that considers
various parameters related to nodes like queue
length, number of forwarding data packets, residual
energy etc. It can manage the throughput and the
energy consumption simultaneously to improve the
network performance in multi-constrained QoS
routing. Simulation results show that IAMQER
algorithm can handle the constraints like end-to-end
delay and packet loss ratio and can find out the QoS
routes and reduces average energy consumption and
improves packet delivery ratio.
Rajneesh Gujral et al. [21] has done a survey
work to improve the performance regarding
CL node
CLB node
Ordinary Node

inference, efficiency, security and various other
issues related to mesh and tree based multicast
routing protocol in MANET. From the survey of
these protocols, it has observed that to design a single
protocol which can satisfy all the above mentioned
issues is a still an open challenge for researchers.
VI. CONCLUSION
In this paper, we discussed the various solutions
developed by the researchers for QoS enabled
communication support over Multicast Mobile Ad
hoc networks. Concept of Quality of services deals
with the various performance parameters like end-to-
end delay, jitter, bandwidth, load, packet delivery
ratio etc. Using all these parameters, QoS metric can
be formed. In case of Multicast communication over
mobile ad hoc networks, various factors affect the
QoS parameters such as behavior of multicast routing
protocols, unfair channel allocation, limited
resources, error prone wireless links, unstable
network topology due to nodes mobility, unnecessary
control overhead due to insufficient group
management techniques, dependency upon unicast
routing protocols etc. Researchers tried to resolve the
QoS related issues by managing the constraints like
control overhead, delay, energy consumption,
optimal path selection for routing etc. but no single
solution exists which can maintain all the QoS metric
parameters and there is need to develop a solution
which can support the QoS enabled communication
over multicast ad hoc networks while keeping the
above discussed factors under control which can
affect the network performance.
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