Tree, Mesh Structure Based and Stateless Multicast Routing Protocols in Wireless Networks

— Multicasting is the transmission of one packet to a group of nodes identified by single source. In multicasting multiple copies of one packet are delivered to the group of destinations. A single host may be the member of more than one multicast group. In this paper we will discuss the classification of multicast routing protocols depending upon path distribution among the multicast member and how the routing information is exchanged by multicast members in wireless network. In this paper we have discussed the tree and mesh structure based and stateless solution for multicasting in wireless network. Lastly we have compared multicast routing protocol based on the set of parameters.