CSMA-based MAC protocols require wireless nodes to share the transmission medium with other nodes that are within carriersensing (CS) range. Hence, operations that depend on and c...
Kimaya Sanzgiri, Ian D. Chakeres, Elizabeth M. Bel...
—Multicast is attracting a resurgence of interest because it has a potential to address the explosively growing need for efficient streaming of large-volume Internet content. Ho...
Sergey Gorinsky, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Harrick M. Vi...
— Group Communication services have become more and more important in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The use of multicast transmission techniques in MANETs has been shown to ha...
An ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network without the use of any existing network infrastructure or centralized administra...
Josh Broch, David A. Maltz, David B. Johnson, Yih-...
Bandwidth efficiency of wireless multicast can be improved substantially by exploiting the fact that several receivers can be reached at the MAC layer by a single transmission. T...