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94 P.M. Ruiz et al.10.90.81-hop-750kMMARP-750k1-hop-375kMMARP-375k1-hop-187kMMARP-187k0.7Packet Delivery Ratio0.60.50.40.30.20.105 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45Distance (m)Fig. 5. Packet delivery ratio at <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g distance753,6 Kb/s generated <strong>by</strong> the source. When MMARP 1 receives a packet fromWWR and forwards it to MMARP 2, the effective bandwidth is reduced to halfof the orig<strong>in</strong>al. One half of the channel is used for receiv<strong>in</strong>g the packet andthe other half for send<strong>in</strong>g it. When MMARP 2 sends the packet to MMARP 3,the effective bandwidth is further reduced to a third of the orig<strong>in</strong>al (<strong>in</strong> optimalchannel conditions). Leav<strong>in</strong>g thus an effective bandwidth of 667 Kb/s (2/3 Mb/s)which is lower than the 753 Kb/s that the source is us<strong>in</strong>g.However, <strong>in</strong> the trials without that bandwidth limitation the MMARP protocolhas demonstrated to be able to deliver mostly 100% of the packets (even<strong>in</strong> non-optimal channel conditions) without an impairment <strong>in</strong> the overhead orthe scalability of the protocol. The differences <strong>in</strong> the packet delivery ratio betweenthese two multihop cases are ma<strong>in</strong>ly due to the hidden term<strong>in</strong>al problem.At higher data rates, the probability of two packets actually collid<strong>in</strong>g is higher.However, as the figure shows, the performance has not been severely degradedfor that reason. So, it is clear that the real limitation towards multicast ad hocaccess networks is mostly the IEEE 802.11b MAC layer, which is known not tobe very adequate for ad hoc networks. This demonstrates that, regard<strong>in</strong>g theprotocol’s behaviour, hav<strong>in</strong>g a higher number of nodes <strong>in</strong> the same radio l<strong>in</strong>k isnot an issue. Only nodes with the MF FLAG active will forward packets, andonly the best of all those nodes would be selected as a forwarder.5 Conclusions and Future WorkCurrently there is not a real solution to seamlessly support efficient IP multicastcommunications <strong>in</strong> future heterogeneous wireless scenarios. We present our solutionfor ad hoc networks extend<strong>in</strong>g fixed IP access networks. It consists of a novelarchitecture and a new multicast ad hoc rout<strong>in</strong>g protocol called MMARP. Thisapproach is the first to our knowledge be<strong>in</strong>g able to support seamless roam<strong>in</strong>g

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