The broadcast storm problem in a mobile ad hoc network
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Multicast operation of the ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Multicast tree construction and flooding in wireless ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
A rate-adaptive MAC protocol for multi-Hop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Reliable Multicast in Multi-Access Wireless LANs
Wireless Networks
Adaptive demand-driven multicast routing in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Comparison of broadcasting techniques for mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Energy-efficient broadcast and multicast trees in wireless networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Energy-efficient broadcast and multicast trees in wireless networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Performance of Multipoint Relaying in Ad Hoc Mobile Routing Protocols
NETWORKING '02 Proceedings of the Second International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; and Mobile and Wireless Communications
Minimizing broadcast latency and redundancy in ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Link-level measurements from an 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Improving loss resilience with multi-radio diversity in wireless networks
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks
ICDCS '06 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
XORs in the air: practical wireless network coding
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
SoftMAC: Layer 2.5 Collaborative MAC for Multimedia Support in Multihop Wireless Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Trading structure for randomness in wireless opportunistic routing
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Efficient channel-aware rate adaptation in dynamic environments
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
FairCast: fair multi-media streaming in ad hoc networks through local congestion control
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Routing stability in static wireless mesh networks
PAM'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Passive and active network measurement
Experiences from the design, deployment, and usage of the UCSB MeshNet testbed
IEEE Wireless Communications
Video coding with optimal inter/intra-mode switching for packet loss resilience
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Low-Latency Broadcast in Multirate Wireless Mesh Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Cross-Layer Architecture for Adaptive Video Multicast Streaming Over Multirate Wireless LANs
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
Improved heuristics for multicast routing in wireless mesh networks
Wireless Networks
Computers and Electrical Engineering
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IEEE 802.11 devices dynamically choose among different modulation schemes and bit-rates for frame transmissions. This rate adaptation, however, is restricted only to unicast frames. Multicast (and broadcast) frames are constrained to use a fixed low bit-rate modulation, resulting in low throughput for multicast streams. Availability of high bandwidth and efficient use of the medium is crucial to support multimedia multicast streaming applications such as IPTV, especially in multihop mesh networks. To address this problem, we propose a rate adaptation algorithm for multicast transmissions in these networks. The proposed algorithm, MARS, is distributed in nature, and relies on local network measurements to select a transmission bit-rate for a given multicast group. The algorithm also facilitates the joint use of bit-rate selection and link-layer mechanisms such as acknowledgements and retransmissions to improve reliability of high throughput multicast streams. Based on implementation and evaluation on a testbed, the algorithm provides up to 600% gain in throughput compared to traditional 802.11 networks in some scenarios. Additionally, the algorithm can support multicast streams while consuming a small fraction (20%) of the resources compared to the basic 802.11 operation.