Proposal and Performance Evaluation of a Multicast Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks Based on Network Load

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Term</td><td align="left">Explanation</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Multicast group member</td><td align="left">Nodes which belong to multicast group</td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Tree member</td><td align="left">Multicast group member and relay nodes which connect to a group member to other group members</td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Broadcast ID</td><td align="left">Unique sequence number of each RREQ packet</td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Group sequence number</td><td align="left">Current sequence number of multicast groups</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

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Table 1: Proposal and Performance Evaluation of a Multicast Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks Based on Network Load 