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