SUPPORTING EFFICIENT AND SCALABLE MULTICASTING OVER MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORKS

PROJECT GUIDE B. SREEDHAR SIR

BATCH MATES: M.V.BRAHMANJANEYULU (08711A1233) MD. MUJIKEER AHMED (08711A1234) M. AVINASH REDDY (08711A1231)

ABSTRACT
Group communications are important in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs).

Multicast is an efficient method for implementing group communications. Due to the difficulty in group membership management and multicast packet forwarding over a dynamic topology.
We propose a novel Efficient Geographic Multicast Protocol (EGMP). EGMP

uses a virtual-zone-based structure to implement scalable and efficient group membership management. A network wide zone-based bidirectional tree is constructed to achieve more efficient membership management and multicast delivery.

Abstract Continues
The position information is used to guide the zone structure building, multicast tree

construction, and multicast packet forwarding, which efficiently reduces the overhead for route searching and tree structure maintenance.

EGMP has high packet delivery ratio, and low control overhead and multicast group

joining delay and is scalable to both group size and network size.

EGMP has significantly lower control overhead, data transmission overhead, and

multicast group joining delay.

EXISTING SYSTEM
The existing system does not have good scalability due to the overhead incurred for

route searching, group membership management, and creation and maintenance of the tree or mesh structure.

n unicast geographic routing, the destination position is carried in the packet header

to guide the packet forwarding, but in multicast routing, the destination is a group of members.

The header overhead will increase significantly as the group size increases

PROPOSED SYSTEM
We propose an efficient geographic multicast protocol, EGMP, which can scale to a

large group size and large network size.

The protocol is designed to be comprehensive and self-contained, simple and

efficient for more reliable operation.

It deals a zone-based scheme to efficiently handle the group membership

management, and takes advantage of the membership management structure to

efficiently track the locations of all the group members without resorting to an external location server.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS Processor Ram Hard Disk

: Any Processor above 500 MHz's : 128Mb. : 10 Gb.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS Operating System Data Bases Front End

: Windows 2000 and Above. : MS SQL Server 2005 : Java

MODULES

1. Tree Construction
2. Packet Delivery 3. Tree Maintenance 4. Route Maintenance and Optimization

1. Tree Construction

When a user is logged session is initiated, the first source node by sending message NEW_SESSION into the whole network. To end a session a message END_SESSION is called logout. When calling this message the nodes will remove all the information about G from their membership tables and multicast tables. When a node wants to join in to the particular group, if it is not a leader node, it sends a JOIN_REQ message to its zone leader, carrying its address, position, and group to join. When a member wants to leave from group, it sends a LEAVE(M,G) message to its zone leader. On receiving this message leader removes the node from zone list.

2. Packet Delivery
When a source has data to send and it is not a leader, it checks the Acknowledgement flag in its membership table to find out if it is on the tree. If zone has joined the multicast tree, it sends the multicast packets to its leader. When the leader of an on tree zone receives multicast packets, it forwards the packets to its upstream zone and all its downstream nodes and zones except the incoming one. When a node has a multicast packet to forward to a list of destinations it decides the next node toward each destination. The node inserts the list of next nodes and the destinations associated with each next node in the packet header. After receiving the packet, a neighbor node will keep the packet.

3. Tree Maintenance
A node constructs its neighbor table. When receiving a initiation from a neighbor, a node records the node ID, position, and flag contained in the message in its neighbor table.
For efficient management of states in a zone, a leader is elected with minimum overhead. Zone leader manages all the group of the particular zone. This zone leader only can possible to elect the group leader. EGMP simply inserts in the header message a flag indicating whether the sender is a zone leader or group leader. In existing system all of the zone and group size are constant one. We are going to develop the environment much bigger from normal size. EGMP could achieve much higher delivery ratio in all circumstances, with respect to the variation of mobility, node density, group size, and network range.

4. Route Maintenance and Optimization

When a member node moves to a new zone, it must rejoin the multicast tree through the new leader. When a leader is moving away from its current zone, it must handover its multicast table to the new leader in the zone. A zone may become empty when all the nodes move away. If a tree zone becomes empty, the multicast tree will be adjusted correspondingly to keep the multicast tree connected. When a leader is moving away from a non root tree zone and the zone is becoming empty, it will send its multicast table to its upstream zone. The upstream zone leader will take over all its downstream zones, and delete this requesting zone from its downstream zone list. Sometimes a zone leader may receive duplicate multicast packets from different upstream zones. In this case, the one closer to the root zone will be kept as the upstream zone. If the two upstream zones have the same distances to the root zone, one of them is randomly selected.

Database Diagram:

Tbl_ZoneLeader PK ZoneLeaderID ZoneLeaderName ZoneLeaderIP ZoneLeaderPort

Tbl_GroupLeader PK GroupLeaderID ZoneLeaderID GroupLeaderName GroupLeaderIP GroupLeaderPort TimeIN

Tbl_GroupMember PK GroupMemberID GroupLeaderID GroupMemberName GroupMemberIP GroupMemberPort TimeIN

Dataflow Diagram: Level 0

Send Message Receive Message

Group Member

Group Leader 1

Group Leader 2

Group Member

Dataflow Diagram: Level 1

Zone Leader

Send Message

Receive Message

Group Member

Join/Leave

Group Leader 1

Group Leader 2

Join/Leave

Group Member

Dataflow Diagram: Level 2

Group Leader Election

Zone Leader

Tree Maintenance

Send Message

Join/Leave

Join/Leave

Receive Message

Group Member

Join/Leave

Group Leader 1

Group Leader 2

Join/Leave

Group Member

UML DIAGRAMS

Use Case Diagram: Zone Leader

Tree Maintenance

Group Leader Election

Response Group Join/Leave

Zone Leader

Multicast Message

Handle Empty Zone

Use Case Diagram: Group Leader & Group Member

Send/Receive MSG

Send/Receive MSG
Request Zone Join/Leave

Response Member Join/Leave

Request Group Join/Leave

Group Leader

Multicast Message

Group Member
Handle Empty Group

Multicast Message

Group Leader

Group Member

Class Diagram:

TESTING
SYSTEM TESTING
UNIT TESTING INTEGRATION TESTING WHITE BOX TESTING BLACK BOX TESTING

SCREEN SHOTS

CONCLUSION
We proposed an efficient and scalable geographic multicast protocol, EGMP, for MANET.
A zone-based bidirectional multicast tree is built. The use of location information in EGMP significantly reduces the tree construction and maintenance overhead, and enables quicker tree structure adaptation to the network topology change. We developed a scheme to handle the empty zone problem, which is challenging for the zone-based protocols. EGMP could achieve much higher delivery ratio with respect to the variation of mobility,

node density, group size, and network range.

Thank You