Simulation Studies of Multicast Connections in Ad-Hoc Networks

Ad-hoc networks are an extension of the traditional network infrastructure (cellular networks, wireless LAN, etc) and fit into the concept of the Internet of Things. Routing design in such a networks is a challenge because of limited node resources and nodes mobility. Thus efficient data transmission techniques like multicasting are under scrutiny. The article analyzes and explores the performance of multicast heuristic algorithms without constraints and quality of multicast trees in ad-hoc networks and proves the thesis that well-known multicast heuristic algorithms designed for packet networks have a good performance in ad-hoc networks with decentralized structure.