A Multicast Mechanism in WiMax Mesh Network

Author

Chen, Jianfeng ; Jiao, Wenhua ; Jiang, Pin ; Guo, Qian

Author_Institution

Bell Labs. Res., Lucent Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The IEEE standard 802.16x based broadband wireless access is a promising technology to provide wireless broadband connectivity. Besides point to multi-point mode, a mechanism to create multi-hop network through mesh mode is defined for the frequency spectrum band 2-11 GHz. The standard only defines unicast transmission under mesh mode, but does not specify multicast transmission scheme. This paper proposes a novel multicast mechanism in WiMax mesh network by building a high efficient multicast tree with utilization of scheduling messages defined in the standard. An easy-to-implement tree construction algorithm is presented based on the adjustment of the centralized routing tree. Simulation results show the proposed multicast mechanism improves transmission efficiency and reduces group latency over the traditional way to fulfil multicast by multiple unicast transmissions

Keywords

WiMax; broadband networks; multicast communication; scheduling; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication network topology; trees (mathematics); 2 to 11 GHz; IEEE standard 802.16x; WiMax mesh network; centralized routing tree; message scheduling; multicast mechanism; multicast tree; Ad hoc networks; Mesh networks; Multicast algorithms; Multicast protocols; Network topology; Portable media players; Routing protocols; Unicast; WiMAX; Wireless mesh networks; 802.16; WiMax; centralized scheduling; multicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2006. APCC '06. Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0574-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0574-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2006.255868

Filename

4023173