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Reliable Multicast MAC Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs with Extended Service Range

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Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 18. November 2011
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose the efficient reliable multicast MAC protocol by which the AP (Access Point) can transmit reliably its multicast data frames to the recipients in the AP's one-hop or two-hop transmission range. The AP uses the STAs (Stations) that are directly associated with itself as the relays for the data delivery to the remote recipients that cannot be reached directly from itself. Based on the connectivity information among the recipients, the reliable multicast MAC protocol optimizes the number of the RAK (Request for ACK) frame transmissions in a reasonable computational time. Numerical examples show that our proposed MAC protocol significantly enhances the MAC performance compared with the BMMM (Batch Mode Multicast MAC) protocol that is extended to support the recipients that are in the AP's one-hop or two-hop transmission range in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs.


Corresponding author: Woo-Yong Choi, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Dong-A University, 840 Hadan-2-dong, Saha-gu, Busan, Korea.

Received: 2011-09-02
Published Online: 2011-11-18
Published in Print: 2011-November

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