Multicast routing by mobility prediction for mobile hosts

In this paper, we propose an efficient multicast routing protocol based on mobile IP standard in wireless mobile networks. A mobile host that is located in a foreign network receives a tunneled multicast datagram from a multicast agent, which is located in a remote network or local network. While receiving a tunneled multicast datagram from a remote multicast agent, the local multicast agent starts a multicast tree join operation if the mobile host is expected to remain the network relatively long period of time, while it does not start multicast tree join operation if the mobile host is expected to remain the network relatively short period of time. The proposed protocol tries to minimize the number of unnecessary multicast tree join operations. We examined performance of the proposed protocol by simulation under various environments and we got good performance results.