International Journal of Engineering Research and Development ISSN: 2278-067X, Volume 1, Issue 5 (June 2012), PP.12-17 www.ijerd.

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A New Energy Efficient and Scalable Multicasting Algorithm for Hierarchical Networks
Sridhara Hansanoor1, G Sadashivappa2
Department of Telecommunication Engineering, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore-560059

AbstractIn this paper a routing algorithm is proposed that would divide the entire network area is into different subareas known as zone. Each zone will contain set of nodes. The Zone follows a square topology. Efficient Geographic Multicast Protocol (EGMP) supports scalable and reliable multicast forwarding through a two-tier virtual zone- based structure. At the lower layer, in reference to a pre-determined virtual origin, the nodes in the network self-organize themselves into a set of zones and a leader is elected in a zone to manage the local group membership. At the upper layer, the leader serves as a representative for its zone used for inter zone routing. For efficient and reliable management and transmissions, location information will be considered to be known to each node and used to guide the zone construction, group membership management, multicast tree construction and maintenance, and packet forwarding. The multicast routing algorithm is also compared with the purely random propagation algorithm and the experimental results also prove that the proposed multicasting results show that multicast algorithm is better with respect to number of hops, maintenance of Routing algorithms, power consumed and energy consumed. KeywordsZone, Routing, Multicast, Protocol, EGMP, PRP.

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INTRODUCTION

There are increasing interests and importance in supporting group communications over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). Example applications include the exchange of messages among a group of soldiers in a battlefield, communications among the firemen in a disaster area, and the support of multimedia games and teleconferences. With a one-to-many or many-to-many transmission pattern, multicast is an efficient method to realize group communications. However, there is a big challenge in enabling efficient multicasting over a MANET whose topology may change constantly. Conventional MANET multicast protocols [4][7], [12] can be ascribed into two main categories, tree-based and mesh based. However, due to the constant movement as well as frequent network joining and leaving from individual nodes, it is very difficult to maintain the tree structure using these conventional tree-based protocols (e.g., MAODV [4], AMRIS [5] and MZR [12]). The mesh-based protocols (e.g., FGMP [6], Core-Assisted Mesh protocol [7]) are proposed to enhance the robustness with the use of redundant paths between the source and the destination pairs. Conventional multicast protocols generally do not have good scalability due to the overhead incurred for route searching, group membership management, and creation and maintenance of the tree/mesh structure over the dynamic MANET.

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ZONE FORMATION ALGORITHM

Zone Formation algorithm divides the entire are into multiple zones. Each Zone having a set of nodes in its zone. This is the algorithm which is responsible for deploying the nodes. The entire area is divided into zones with each zone bounded with the limits with some Xmin and Xmax. The Y region is bounded within the limits Ymin and Ymax. Each zone is allocated a set of nodes. Fig.1 shows the zone structure that has been created .

Fig. 1: Zone Formation Algorithm. Fig. 1 shows the zone formation algorithm in whichs each zone is assigned a region id and district id. Therefore each node can be represented as a combination of 3 identifiers namely i,j,k where i is the node id, j is the region id and k is the district id. The zone formation algorithm is shown in Fig. 2.

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Fig. 2: Zone Formation Algorithm.

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ZONE LEADER ELECTION ALGORITHM

The zone leader algorithm first finds out the centered co-ordinates of the multiple zones. The set of nodes in each zone is taken and the distance between the center of a zone and other nodes is calculated. The node which is closer towards the center of the zone is considered to be zone leader because it can have all the nodes information and it is considered to have the high power for inter zone communication. The zone leader algorithm is summarized as shown in the figure 3.

Multicasting Algorithm The multicasting algorithm is used to deliver the packets from source to multiple destination nodes. The following steps are followed for multicasting. 1. Obtain the node id of source node and zone id of source node. 2. Check whether the source node zone id is same as destination node. If yes transmit the packet directly. Otherwise find the zone leader of the current zone and send the packet to zone leader. 3. The source node zone leader sends the packet to destination node zone leader. 4. The destination node zone leader will then send it to destination node.

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Fig. 3: Zone Leader Election Algorithm

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PURELY RANDOM PROPAGATION ROUTING (PRP)

In PRP, shares are propagated based on one-hop neighbourhood information. More specifically, a sensor node maintains a neighbour list, which contains the ids of all nodes within its transmission range. When a source node wants to send shares to the sink, it includes a TTL of initial value N in each share. It then randomly selects a neighbour for each share, and unicasts the share to that neighbour. After receiving the share, the neighbour first decrements the TTL. If the new TTL is greater than 0, the neighbour randomly picks a node from its neighbour list (this node cannot be the source node) and relays the share to it, and so on. When the TTL reaches 0, the final node receiving this share stops the random propagation of this share, and starts routing it toward the sink using min-hop routing. PRP Routing algorithm details are described in the following flow

Fig. 4: Detail Summary of PRP Algorithm

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Case1: Zone Formation Output Number of Nodes=80, Number of Routing Tables=80 Number of Zones=16

RESULTS

Fig. 5: Zone Area Formation Fig. 5 shows the zone formation output. It shows the end points of the Zone Structure having 16 zones. Boundaries in which the nodes must be deployed. Case2: Node Deployment Algorithm Output This algorithm will provide the nodes deployed positions in various zones.

Fig. 6: Node Deployed Positions. Fig. 6 shows node deployed positions in the zone1 and zone2.

Fig. 7: Node Deployed Positions of Zone3 and Zone4 Fig. 7 gives information about the node deployed positions of the zone 3 and Zone4. In a similar way the algorithms handles the zone formation for all 16 zones.

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Case3: Zone Leader Output

Fig. 8: Zone Leader Output. Fig. 8 shows the information about the zone leaders selected for all 16 zones based on Zone Leader Election Algorithm. Case5: Centered Co-ordinates Output

Fig. 9: Centered Co-ordinate Output. Fig. 9 gives the center co-ordinate output for the multicasting.

Fig. 10: Zone Ids Output Fig. 10 shows the output of zone ids for all 16 zones. PERFORMANCE COMPARISON 1. Number of Hops

Fig. 11: Comparison of No. of Hops PRP and Multicasting. Fig. 11 shows the comparison of no of hops of PRP with Multicasting. As seen from the result multicasting has lesser number of hops as compared to PRP.

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2. Power Consumed

Fig. 12: Power Consumed Comparison. Fig. 12 shows the power consumed comparison of PRP algorithm and Multicasting algorithm. As seen from fig multicasting is the best. 3. Energy Efficiency

Fig. 13: Energy Efficiency of PRP and Multicasting. Fig. 13 shows the comparison of PRP and Multicasting algorithm. Multicasting is highly energy efficient as compared to PRP.

VI.

CONCLUSIONS

From the simulation results one can come to know that the Multicasting algorithm is the most efficient as compared to PRP with respect to overhead of maintaining routing tables, no of hops from source to destination, power consumed from source to destination and energy consumed.

VII.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Authors wish to thank The Principal, Professors and Head of the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, R. V. College of Engineering for their Support and Encouragement.

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