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Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences, 2010, 3, 72-78 doi:10.4236/ijcns.2010.310010 Published Online January 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijcns/). Cooperative Loss Recovery for Reliable Multicast in Ad Hoc Networks Mengjie HUANG, Gang FENG, Yide ZHANG National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Communications University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China E-mail :fenggang@ Received September 22, 2009; revised October 24, 2009; accepted December 2, 2009 Abstract Providing reliable multicast service is very challenging in Ad Hoc networks. In this paper, we propose an effi- cient loss recovery scheme for reliable multicast (CoreRM). Our basic idea is to apply the notion of cooperative communications to support local loss recovery in multicast. A receiver node experiencing a packet loss tries to recover the lost packet through progressively cooperating with neighboring nodes, upstream nodes or even source node. In order to reduce recovery latency and retransmission overhead, CoreRM caches not only data packets but also the path which could be used for future possible use to expedite the loss recovery process. Both analytical and simulation results reveal that CoreRM significantly improves the reliable multicast performance in terms of delivery ratio, throughput and recovery latency compared with UDP and PGM. Keywords: Ad Hoc Networks, Reliable Multicast, Cooperative Communication, Loss Recovery 1. Introduction In recent year, a number of reliable multicast protocols [1,2] have been proposed. The Pragmatic General Multi- Mu