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Motivation (cont.)
•Previous work: studied performance of multicast and broadcast protocols in NS2, determined that broadcast protocols can support one-to-many and many-to-many communications well in a MANET
–Choose BCAST as starting point, a protocol that utilizes 2-hop neighborhood information to dynamically prune re-broadcasts
•However, even for “best” broadcast protocol, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) can be reduced when
–Mobility increases
–Number of multicast sender (i.e., traffic) increases