Author : Sonika Kandari and Manoj Kr. Pandey

We surveyed majority of QoS multicast solutions for MANETs published during last ten years for resource estimations, multicast tree/mesh administration and multicast routing (including design principles and conceptual operations). MANETs are widely used for supporting multimedia services that necessitate predictable QoS from networks. In multicast routing, packets need to be multiplexed for reaching multiple destinations, conserving bandwidth and network resources. Hence, QoS support in form of multicasting needs to be identified for multipoint to multipoint communication. We have also outline the new areas for future research in QoS Multicast.

Keywords: QoS, manet, multicast, unicast, ad hoc network

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.4,No.3 (June- 2014)