Topic:- Study on Multicast Routing Issues in Ad Hoc Networks

Goals:-

1)To provide seamless multicast service aalowing multicast groups to span
networks of different types
2)To study how node mobility aafects the performance of flooding in 
wireless networks.

Scope:-
	The advent of ubiquitous computing and  the proliferation of portable
computing devices have raised the importance of mobile and wireless netowrking.
At the same time , the popularity of group-oriented computing has grown 
tremendously.However, little has been accomplished to-date in bringing together 
the technologies for group-oriented communication and mobile networking.In 
particular,most modern wireless/mobile and ad hoc networks do not provide support
for multicast communication.The main focus is on multicasting in Ad hoc Networks 
since it is believed to be a truly challenging and little-explored area.In
contrast, multicast routing in fixed-infrastructure mobile networks presents 
only afew engineering obstacles which mainly have to do with the last hop 
delivery and membership tracking.

References:-

1) Kumar Viswanath and Katia Obraczka
   An Adaptive Approach to Group Communications in Multi Hop Ad Hoc Networks
   http://inrg.cse.ucsc.edu/katia-pubs/kumar.iscc02.pdf,October 20,2003
2) Jun Luo,Patrick Th.Eugster and Jean-Pierre Hubaux
   Route Driven Gossip:Probabilistic Reliable Multicast in Ad Hoc Networks
   http://icwww.epfl.ch/publications/documents/IC_TECH_REPORT_200250.pdf,July 10,2002
3) Thomas Kunz and Ed Cheng
   Multicasting in Ad Hoc Networks:Comparing MAODV and ODMRP
   http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~barbeau/wadhc/Papers/kunz.pdf,August 8,2001