A Study on Various Features of Multicast Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

In mobile ad hoc networks the routing is performed using multi-hop routing from a source to a destination node (or) nodes. Here, the dynamic routing must be focused since they are infrastructureless networks involving a collection of mobile devices communicating over a wireless link. So, it requires a proper route for forwarding the data packets. The study focuses on some of the widely used multicast routing protocols designed to perform its task in accordance with its design criteria.