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Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks, 2nd Edition
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Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks, 2nd Edition

by Subir Kumar Sarkar, T.G. Basavaraju, C. Puttamadappa
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
349 pages
8h 42m
English
CRC Press
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3.2.5 Multicast Support
In multicast routing, which is a network layer function, data packets
from a source reach a group of many destinations. As we know, mul-
ticast routing is a network layer function that constructs paths along
which data packets from a source are distributed to reach many, but not
all, destinations in a communication network. en, multicast routing
sends a single copy of a data packet simultaneously to multiple receivers
over a communication link that is shared by the paths to the receivers.
Multicast supports group communication, especially in the case of
MANETs, where the network is self-organized, where bandwidth is
limited, and where energy is constrained. MANETs consists of sev-
era ...
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