Performance analysis of multicast routing protocols using NS-3

Mobility of users and enhancement of bandwidth have been characterizing factors for the global telecommunication development which also witnessed improvements in services. If user needs to send some information over the prescribed bandwidth with dure reliability then the (QOS) Quality of services becomes more critical and seeks expected performance. A Mobile Adhoc Network is self-possessed combination of mobile nodes. It has to be self-structured. These are mobility extensions into wireless domain and autonomous mobile dominion. In this set of specified nodes which form adhoc network with routing infrastructure too. Multicasting is responsible for transferring information efficiently from a source to any destination; duplication of messages and delivery takes place only once and that too at the branch points, due to splitting of the destination links. The authors have successfully been able to address several issues relating to MANET, especially multicasting, its routing protocols and qualitative comparisons. Further, in this paper, we particularly focused on implementation as well as performance analysis of multicast routing protocols like AODV, MAODV using network simulator NS3. By using the performance parameter such as average end-to-end delay and packet delivery ratio (PDR) and routing-overhead.