Multicasting is a technique in which a sender's message is forwarded to a group of receivers. Conventional wired multicast routing protocols do not perform well in mobile ad hoc wireless network (MANET) because of the dynamic nature of the network topology. Apart from mobility aspect there is bandwidth restriction also which must be addressed by the multicasting protocol for the MANET. In this paper, we give a survey of classification of multicast routing protocol and associated protocols. In the end, a comparison is also made among different classes of multicast routing.
Multicast routing, mobile ad hoc network, tree based protocol, mesh based protocol, source-initiated multicast, receiver initiated multicast, soft state, hard state
