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Extend<strong>in</strong>g Seamless IP Multicast Edge-Coverage 91nodes, may be received <strong>by</strong> all neighbours and processed <strong>in</strong>dependently, creat<strong>in</strong>gunnecessary paths.The MMARP protocol has been designed to avoid unnecessary generationof these messages. It <strong>in</strong>cludes a field <strong>in</strong> its header which facilitates the identificationof the node which actually triggered the send<strong>in</strong>g of the control message;this allows ad hoc nodes to identify all the MMARP packets which are triggered<strong>by</strong> a specific standard IP node, <strong>in</strong>dependently of the ad hoc neighbour whichactually generated it. Thus, ad hoc neighbours of standard IP nodes and <strong>in</strong>termediatead hoc nodes are able to detect these types of MMARP SOURCEand MMARP JOIN messages as duplicate and avoid the creation of unnecessarypaths.4 Empirical ResultsWe have set up an <strong>in</strong>door 802.11b multicast wired-to-wireless ad hoc networktestbed to evaluate the feasibility of our MMARP-based seamless IP multicastapproach for wireless ad hoc access networks. Our target is to evaluate the benefitsof MMARP-driven <strong>in</strong>frastructureless ad hoc access networks when comparedto traditional s<strong>in</strong>gle-hop wireless IP multicast <strong>in</strong> a realistic scenario.4.1 Testbed DescriptionAs it is shown <strong>in</strong> Fig. 3, the testbed consists of six x86-compatible PCs anda laptop. Different processor and memory configurations are used, s<strong>in</strong>ce thereare not any specific hardware requirements. In fact, all of these PCs are able tosupport the workload of the experiments. Three out of the six PCs are act<strong>in</strong>gas MMARP-enabled nodes runn<strong>in</strong>g Red Hat L<strong>in</strong>ux 7.2 with the 2.4.17 kernel.They have a Lucent 802.11b pcmcia card as unique NIC. The nodes labelled asWR (Wireless Router) and WWR(Wired-to-Wireless Router) are PCs runn<strong>in</strong>gFreeBSD 4.6 OS. The WWR node is equipped with two NICs, one of them be<strong>in</strong>ga Lucent WaveLan pcmcia card to provide coverage for the wireless area, whilethe other one is a 100 Mbps Ethernet NIC. The Wired Router (WR) conta<strong>in</strong>stwo 100 Mb/s Ethernet NICs, one connected to the WWR and the other one tothe rest of fixed networks. The Sender and Receiver nodes are both runn<strong>in</strong>g RedHat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.17. The sender is a x86-compatible desktop with a 100Mb/s Ethernet card whereas the receiver is a laptop PC equipped with a Lucent802.11b-compatible pcmcia wireless NIC. Wireless 2.422 GHz channel operat<strong>in</strong>gat the maximum capacity of 2 Mb/s has been used for the experiment. We havepreviously checked that this channel was not occupied <strong>by</strong> any other equipment.All the WaveLan NICs are operated <strong>in</strong> ad hoc mode.4.2 Description of the ExperimentsTo assess the effectiveness of our proposal, we have performed two different tests:s<strong>in</strong>gle-hop IP multicast and multihop ad hoc IP multicast. The former consists of

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