Group Management Framework for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

as a set of independent wireless nodes (devices) that communicate with each other. MANETs have no fixed infrastructure and could be deployed where deploying network that has fixed infrastructure is not possible. Due to nature of MANETs, they are more desirable medium of communication in environments like disaster relief, battle fields or traffic control. In these environments users of MANET mostly operate in groups. For group communication over MANETs multicast routing protocols are used which faces challenges of dynamic topology changes, security and resource utilization. In our paper we propose a Group Management Framework (GMF) that provides management on group level thus groups are managed to overcome problems faced by multicast routing protocols. Our GMF works in parallel with routing protocols, feeding already organized information required. I