Link layer multicast using smart antennas: No client left behind

• Main Authors: Souvik SEN, XIONG, Jie, GHOSH, Rahul, CHOUDHURY, Romit Roy
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Adaptive antenna arrays; Broadcast channels; Multicast protocols; Telecommunication network topology; Time-varying channels; Wireless LAN; Wireless channels; Qualnet; Audio streaming; Beamforming antenna; Broadcast channel; Client topology; Dynamic programming; High-rate omnidirectional transmission; Multicast protocol; Smart antenna; Time-varying channel; Wireless channel; Wireless link layer multicast; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2798; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3798/viewcontent/LinkLayerMulticasting_2008_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Wireless link layer multicast is an important service primitive for emerging applications, such as live video, streaming audio, and other content telecasts. The broadcast nature of the wireless channel is amenable to multicast because a single packet transmission may be received by all clients in th...