• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.294-306
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• 2005

Group oriented multicast applications are becoming increasingly popular in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Due to dynamic topology of MANETs, stateless multicast protocols are finding increased acceptance since they do not require maintenance of state information at intermediate nodes. Recently, several multicast schemes have been proposed which scale better' with the number of multicast sessions than traditional multicast strategies. These schemes are also known as explicit multicast (Xcast; explicit list of destinations in the packet header) or small group multicast (SGM). In this paper, we propose a new scheme for small group' multicast in MANETs named extended explicit multicast (E2M), which is implemented on top of Xcast and introduces mechanisms to make it scalable with number of group members for a given multicast session. Unlike other schemes, E2M does not make any assumptions related to network topology or node location. It is based on the novel concept of dynamic selection of Xcast forwarders (XFs) between a source and its potential destinations. The XF selection is based on group membership and the processing overhead involved in supporting the Xcast protocol at a given node. If the number of members in a given session is small, E2M behaves just like the basic Xcast scheme with no intermediate XFs. As group membership increases, nodes may dynamically decide to become an XF. This scheme, which can work with few E2M aware nodes in the network, provides transparency of stateless multicast, reduces header processing overhead, minimizes Xcast control traffic, and makes Xcast scalable with the number of group members.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.8 s.350
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• pp.15-24
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• 2006

We design and implement explicit mobile multicast, named XMIP, by enhancing explicit multicast for a great number of small group multicast communications. XMIP is a straightforward multicast mechanism without maintaining multicast states due to the inheritance from the explicit multicast based on a unicast routing. This research modifies and extends the functionality of each mobility agent of IETF Mobile IP for interworking XMIP XMIP Packets captured by an extended home agent are forwarded to each extended foreign agent through nested tunnels, named X-in-X tunnels, made by the binding table of the extended home agent. X-in-X tunneling mechanism can effectively solve the serious traffic concentration problems of Mobile IP multicast specifications. Finally heterogeneous mobile networks as an XMIP testbed including CDMA2000 1X EV-DO and WLAN are actually established, and a multi-user instant messenger system for small group communications is developed for verifying the feasibility of the proposed protocols.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.12C no.2 s.98
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• pp.267-280
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• 2005

In this paper, we implement and verify XMIP integrating IETF Mobile IP and the Explicit Multicast mechanism for a great number of small group multicast communications. U a source node sends Xcast packets explicitly inserting destination nodes into the headers, each Xcast router decides routes and forwards the packets toward each destination node based on unicast routing table without the support of multicast trees. n is a straightforward and simple multicast mechanism just based on a unicast routing table without maintaining multicast states because of the inheritance from the Explicit Multicast mechanism. This research modifies and extends the functionality of IETF Mobile IP's mobility agents, such as HA/FA to HA+/FA+ respectively, considering interworking with Xcast networks. Xcast packets captured by HA+ are forwarded into X-in-X tunnel interfaces for each FA+ referred to the binding table of HA.. This X-in-X tunneling mechanism can effectively solve the traffic concentration problem of IETF Mobile IP multicast services. Finally WLAN-based testbed is built and a multi-user Instant messenger system is developed as a Xcast application for finally verify the feasibility of the implemented XMIP/Xcast protocols.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.16 no.5 s.71
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• pp.85-93
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• 2001

본 고에서는 최근 IETF를 중심으로 새롭게 제안되고 있는 Xcast(Explicit Multicast) 기술에 관해 소개한다. Xcast 멀티캐스트 방식은 IBM의 SGM(Small Group Multicast), Alcatel의 CLM(Connectionless Multicast), Fujitsu의 MDO6(Multiple Destination Option for IPv6) 제안을 수정, Xcast로 통합한 것으로 기존 IP 멀티캐스트 방식과는 달리, IP 패킷 내에 수신자 목록을 명시적으로 포함하여 전송함으로써 소규모 그룹 통신을 위해 적합한 새로운 멀티캐스트 통신 방식이다. 본 고에서는 Xcast 기본 프로토콜 규격을 중심으로 최근 기술동향 및 국내 Xcast-KR 연구동향 등을 소개한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.14C no.4
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• pp.359-364
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• 2007

Current researches on the overlay multicast mechanism in the mobile ad hoc network (MANET) maintain the network topology information of the dynamically changing MANET, which may cause severe overhead. In this paper, we propose a new overlay multicast mechanism, the region-based overlay multicast in MANET(ROME), using the geometric locations of group members. In ROME, the physical topology is divided into small regions and the scope of location updates of group members is limited to a single region. ROME provides scalability by using the coordinate of the center point of a destination region as the destination of a data packet instead of the list of member addresses of that region. Our simulation results show that ROME gives better performance in terms of the packet overhead than other schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.1586-1605
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• 2012

With the prevalence of multimedia applications and the potential commercial usage of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) in group communications, Quality of Service (QoS) support became a key requirement. Recently, some researchers studied QoS multicast issues in MANETs. Most of the existing QoS multicast routing protocols are designed with flat topology and small networks in mind. In this paper, we investigate the scalability problem of these routing protocols. In particular, a Position-Based QoS Multicast Routing Protocol (PBQMRP) has been developed. PBQMRP builds a source multicast tree guided by the geographic information of the mobile nodes, which helps in achieving more efficient multicast delivery. This protocol depends on the location information of the multicast members which is obtained using a location service algorithm. A virtual backbone structure has been proposed to perform this location service with minimum overhead and this structure is utilized to provide efficient packet transmissions in a dynamic mobile Ad hoc network environment. The performance of PBQMRP is evaluated by performing both quantitative analysis and extensive simulations. The results show that the used virtual clustering is very useful in improving scalability and outperforms other clustering schemes. Compared to On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP), PBQMRP achieves competing packet delivery ratio and significantly lower control overhead.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.116-122
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• 2001

A conventional multicast secure protocol. MVMRP, CBT is designed for a large scaled r protocol so the PIM-SM (protect Independent Multicst-Sparse Mode) routing protocol which small number of clients, long distance path among the hosts and shortest path routing chara weak point of require it's own Core tree and re-keying when the traffic is pass through the ro In this study, proposes a architect for a licit information secure of join/leave to all the user or on-service user. With proposed architect, subgroups for multicast secure group mana will be divided by RP (Rendezvous-Point) unit and each RP has a subgroup manager. As a result, the transmitting time is shortened because there is no need to data translation by group key on data sending and the whole architecture size is samller than the other multicast secure architecture.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.177-182
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• 2004

The existing group key management architectures applied to a small scale routing protocols may have many overheads with key distribution. Therefore this paper proposes a group key management protocol in PIM-SM multicast group communication. This method divide multicast groups with RP, and subgroup key managers are established in each RP and can be transmitted groups keys. And this does not have needs of the data translation and the new key distribution for path change. This does not have needs of the data translation and the new key distribution for path change, so the data transmission time can be reduced.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10c
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• pp.370-372
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• 2001

인터넷에서 멀티캐스팅을 지원하기 위해 제안된 기존의 Any Source Multicast(ASM)는 실제 망에의 적용시 멀티 캐스팅 세션 관리 문제, 주소 할당 문제 등과 같은 구현상의 문제를 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 새로운 관점의 다양한 메커니즘들이 제안되고 있다. 현재 제안되고 있는 메커니즘은 크게 Source Specific Multicast(SSM). Small Group Multicast(SGM)이 있다. 하지만, SGM은 많은 수의 사용자들에게 지원이 어렵고 새로운 헤더가 추가되어야 하는 부담이 있으며, SSM은 <송신자 주소, 그룹 주소>의 쌍으로 멀티캐스트 세션을 식별하게 하여 기존 ASM의 주소 할당 문제를 해결하였으나 경로 상의 모든 라우터에서 <송신자 주소, 그룹 주소> 별로 멀티캐스트 세션 정보를 유지해야 하는 측면에서 확장성의 문제점이 있다. 본 논문은 멀티캐스트 지원을 위하여 인터넷의 계층적인 구조를 이용하여 SSM을 확장한 멀티캐스트 지원 방안을 제안한다. 제안된 메커니즘은 확장성 문제를 해결하기 위하여 송신자로부터 칵 도해인의 경계 라우터까지 터널링 메커니즘을 도입하고 도메인 내에서는 다양한 멀티캐스트 제공 메커니즘을 지원한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.2648-2665
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• 2022

Device-to-device (D2D) multicast has become a promising technology to provide specific services within a small geographical region with a high data rate, low delay and low energy consumption. However, D2D multicast communications are allowed to reuse the same channels with cellular uplinks and result in mutual interference in a cell. In this paper, an intelligent channel assignment algorithm is designed in D2D underlaid cellular networks with the target of maximizing network throughput. We first model the channel assignment problem to be a throughput maximizing problem which is NP-hard. To solve the problem in a feasible way, a novel channel assignment algorithm is proposed. The key idea is to find the appropriate cellular communications and D2D multicast groups to share a channel without causing critical interference, i.e., finding a channel for a D2D multicast group which generates the least interference to network based on current channel assignment status. In order to show the efficacy and effectiveness of our proposed algorithm, a novel search algorithm is proposed to find the near-optimal solution as the baseline for comparisons. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm improves the network throughput.