A Review of the Energy Efficient and Secure Multicast Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

TL;DR

This paper surveys recent energy-efficient and secure multicast routing protocols in MANETs, highlighting their mechanisms, challenges, and the importance of balancing security with energy management in dynamic wireless networks.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of existing multicast routing protocols focusing on energy efficiency and security in MANETs, identifying gaps and future research directions.

Findings

Multicast routing improves bandwidth efficiency in MANETs.

Security is a critical challenge in multicast routing.

Many protocols employ diverse mechanisms for energy and security optimization.

Abstract

This paper presents a thorough survey of recent work addressing energy efficient multicast routing protocols and secure multicast routing protocols in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). There are so many issues and solutions which witness the need of energy management and security in ad hoc wireless networks. The objective of a multicast routing protocol for MANETs is to support the propagation of data from a sender to all the receivers of a multicast group while trying to use the available bandwidth efficiently in the presence of frequent topology changes. Multicasting can improve the efficiency of the wireless link when sending multiple copies of messages by exploiting the inherent broadcast property of wireless transmission. Secure multicast routing plays a significant role in MANETs. However, offering energy efficient and secure multicast routing is a difficult and challenging task. In recent years, various multicast routing protocols have been proposed for MANETs. These protocols have distinguishing features and use different mechanisms