Paper Info
Title
An Innovative Rate Adaptation Algorithm For Multicast Transmissions In Wireless Lans
Abstract
Rate adaptation represents a key functionality of the 802.11 MAC protocol for performance enhancement. Several solutions have been proposed for improving the transmission rate of unicast communications using frame receptions/losses, BER (Bit Error Rate) and SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) measurements. Nevertheless, rate adaptation for multicast transmissions represents a more challenging tasks due to the complexity of estimating the reception correlation of wireless links.This paper presents a novel scheme for selecting the best transmission rate for multicast communications using the packet reception correlation of the links established among the nodes of the multicast group with the access point.The proposed algorithm has been evaluated on a real-life testbed using commercial wireless cards. The results show that our solution accurately estimates the reception correlation of wireless links, thus considerably increasing the performance of multicast transmissions up to 3x and 5x in terms of throughput and delay, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/VTCSpring.2013.6691882
2013 IEEE 77TH VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE (VTC SPRING)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multicast Rate Adaptation, Multimedia Communication, Wireless Networks
Protocol Independent Multicast,Source-specific multicast,Computer science,Xcast,Algorithm,Computer network,Real-time computing,Pragmatic General Multicast,Multicast,Reliable multicast,Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol,IP multicast
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-2252
6
0.62
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefano Paris114015.36
Nicolo Facchi2282.19
Francesco Gringoli389061.65
Antonio Capone4103580.76