Low Latency Multimedia Broadcast in Multi-rate Wireless Meshes

• Main Authors: CHOU, Chun-Tong, MISRA, Archan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/687; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1686/viewcontent/Misra2005LowLatency.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In a multi-rate wireless network, a node can dynamically adjust its link transmission rate by switching between different modulation schemes. For the current IEEE802.11a/b/g standards, this rate adjustment is limited to unicast traffic only while multicast and broadcast traffic is always transmitted at the lowest possible rate. In this paper, we consider a novel type of multi-rate mesh networks where a node can dynamically adjust its link layer multicast rates to its neighbours. In particular, we consider the problem of realising low latency network-wide broadcast in this type of multi-rate wireless meshes. We will first show that the multi-rate broadcast problem is significantly different from the single-rate case. We will then present an algorithm for achieving low latency broadcast in a multi-rate mesh which exploits both wireless broadcast advantage and the multi-rate nature of the network.