JSE_V5_N2_RP8 S. Vasundra B. Sathyanarayana Journal on Software Engineering 2230 – 7168 5 2 50 57 Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Multicast Algorithm, Hybrid Swarm Intelligence, Optimization Techniques In our everyday communication infrastructure mobile ad hoc networks plays a central role. In mobile ad hoc networks, how to achieve the multicast communication is a challenging task due to the fact that the topology may change frequently and communication links may be broken because of users' mobility. The authors introduced MANSI (Multicast for Ad hoc Network with Swarm Intelligence) protocol, which relies on a swarm intelligence based optimization technique to learn and discover efficient multicast connectivity. The proposed protocol instances that it can quickly and efficiently establish initial multicast connectivity and/or improved the resulting connectivity via different optimization techniques. Using a simulation approach, they investigated performance of the proposed algorithm through a comparison with an algorithm previously proposed in the literature. Based on the numerical results, they demonstrate that the proposed algorithm performs well. October - December 2010 Copyright © 2010 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=1336