TY - CONF ID - SisLab2376 UR - http://rev-conf.org/atc2011/ A1 - Nguyen, Trung Hai A1 - Nguyen, Dai Tho Y1 - 2011/// N2 - This paper presents a novel protocol for multicasting in mobile ad-hoc networks named Spanning Tree for Multicasting (STM), which establishes and maintains the spanning tree for each multicast group using optimal control packets, without requiring any underlying unicast routing protocol or any pre-configured state of group. Based on the original idea of optimal maintenance of a spanning tree (OMST), we improve this algorithm considerably and propose our multicast protocol, as well as implement it as an extension of simulator NS-2. We compare STM with MAODV and PUMA using NS-2 through various scenarios, the results show that STM attains top packet delivery ratio, while keeping less overhead than others. As far as we know, our implementation is the very first implementation inspired by OMST in practice. TI - An Efficient and Message-Optimal Multicast Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks SP - 169 M2 - Danang City, Vietnam AV - public EP - 173 T2 - 2011 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications ER -