FAST MULTICAST SUBSCRIPTION FOR MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK

摘要

The present invention relates to a method of multicast streaming between two mobile networks forming a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET), each networks having a mobile device (201,211 ) and a router (202,212). The method comprises multicast streaming data from a sender device (201) through a sender router (202) without the presence of a recipient device (211); subscribing to a multicast stream by the recipient device (211) through a recipient router (212) without the presence of the sender device (201); establishing a connection between the sender router (202) and the recipient router (212); sending the subscription from the recipient device (211) to the sender device (201) once the two routers (202,212) are connected; and transmitting the data from the sender device (201) to the recipient device (211). The multicast streaming of the MANET is carried out without any multicast announcement. A multicast streaming system is also provided.