Performance analysis of multicast transmission in WLAN

Author

Lott, Matthias ; Sitalo, Alexey ; Linsk, Evgeny ; Li, Hui

Author_Institution

Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1223

Abstract

In this paper point-to-multipoint (PMP) transmission on the link layer in ad hoc networks based on the WLAN standard IEEE 802.11 is investigated. Besides the basic access scheme for multicast/broadcast, which is defined in the standard, two alternative schemes are introduced, which make use of the request-to-send (RTS) and clear-to-send (CTS) handshaking. This two-way handshaking is specified in the standards documents only for unicast connections and should be applied for large packets and to combat hidden stations. However, with slight modifications of the respective control packets it can be applied also for PMP transmission and performance evaluations of the different approaches indicate considerable enhancements in reliability for the proposed schemes compared to the one specified in the standard.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; multicast communication; radio links; wireless LAN; 2-way handshaking; IEEE 802.11 standard; WLAN; ad hoc networks; clear-to-send handshaking; link layer; multicast transmission; point-to-multipoint transmission; request-to-send handshaking; wireless local area network; Ad hoc networks; Intelligent networks; Interference; Mobile ad hoc networks; Performance analysis; Portable media players; Radio transmitters; Telecommunication network reliability; Unicast; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Spring. The 57th IEEE Semiannual

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7757-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2003.1207822

Filename

1207822