An Efficient Multicast Routing Algorithm for Wireless Mesh Networks
Wenxiao Shi, Shaobo Wang, Zhuo Wang, Ruidong Zhang · 2018
Multicast1 can allow a gateway to send data packets to a group of receivers in an efficient manner, which can save bandwidth and network resources. A major issue for wireless mesh networks (WMNs) is multicast routing. In multicast communication, link load and link quality between two nodes are both important elements in the process of multicast routing. In this paper, a link load and link quality (LLLQ) routing algorithm is proposed to construct an efficient multicast tree. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm can improve the performance of WMNs.