Transmission rate sampling and selection for reliable wireless multicast

dc.contributor.authorGeithner, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorSivrikaya, Fikret
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-30T08:19:28Z
dc.date.available2020-11-30T08:19:28Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-30
dc.description.abstractThe multicast communication concept offers a scalable and efficient method for many classes of applications; however, its potential remains largely unexploited when it comes to link-layer multicasting in wireless local area networks. The fundamental lacking feature for this is a transmission rate control mechanism that offers higher transmission performance and lower channel utilization, while ensuring the reliability of wireless multicast transmissions. This is much harder to achieve in a scalable manner for multicast when compared with unicast transmissions, which employs explicit acknowledgment mechanisms for rate control. This article introduces EWRiM, a reliable multicast transmission rate control protocol for IEEE 802.11 networks. It adapts the transmission rate sampling concept to multicast through an aggregated receiver feedback scheme and combines it with a sliding window forward error correction (FEC) mechanism for ensuring reliability at the link layer. An inherent novelty of EWRiM is the close interaction of its FEC and transmission rate selection components to address the performance-reliability tradeoff in multicast communications. The performance of EWRiM was tested in three scenarios with intrinsically different traffic patterns; namely, music streaming scenario, large data frame delivery scenario, and an IoT scenario with frequent distribution of small data packets. Evaluation results demonstrate that the proposed approach adapts well to all of these realistic multicast traffic scenarios and provides significant improvements over the legacy multicast- and unicast-based transmissions.en
dc.description.sponsorshipDFG, 414044773, Open Access Publizieren 2019 - 2020 / Technische Universität Berlinen
dc.identifier.eissn1530-8677
dc.identifier.issn1530-8669
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/12077
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-10951
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subject.ddc620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeitende
dc.subject.othermulticast communication concepten
dc.subject.otherwireless networksen
dc.subject.otherwireless multicasten
dc.titleTransmission rate sampling and selection for reliable wireless multicasten
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber8850198en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1155/2020/8850198en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleWireless Communications and Mobile Computingen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameHindawien
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceLondonen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume2020en
tub.accessrights.dnbfreeen
tub.affiliationFak. 4 Elektrotechnik und Informatik::Inst. Wirtschaftsinformatik und Quantitative Methoden::FG Agententechnologien in betrieblichen Anwendungen und der Telekommunikation (AOT)de
tub.affiliation.facultyFak. 4 Elektrotechnik und Informatikde
tub.affiliation.groupFG Agententechnologien in betrieblichen Anwendungen und der Telekommunikation (AOT)de
tub.affiliation.instituteInst. Wirtschaftsinformatik und Quantitative Methodende
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlinen

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