A framework for the admission control of QoS multicast traffic in mobile ad hoc networks
Elena Pagani, Gian Paolo Rossi · 2001
Recently, QoS issues have initiated to be studied in both wired and wireless networks, to support multimedia and real-time applications. In this paper, we propose a framework for the admission control of multimedia multicast traffic and for the system configuration in MANETs. We present a mechanism to ensure bandwidth guarantees to multicast sessions (Call-Admission Multicast Protocol for MANETs, M-CAMP). M-CAMP is scalable, operates on a per-call basis and supports the group membership dynamics. It adopts a measurement-based approach to evaluate the end-to-end bandwidth availability between the traffic source and the group of destinations. M-CAMP is independent of the underlying wireless technology and protocols, as far as a multicast routing service is available. It does not require any maintenance of status information in the mobile hosts.