Reliable Multicast in Multi-Access Wireless LANs
Wireless Networks
Experimental evaluation of wireless simulation assumptions
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Experimental evaluation of TCP performance and fairness in an 802.11e test-bed
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
Experimental evaluation of the TCP simultaneous-send problem in 802.11 wireless local area networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Multicast and unicast real-time video streaming over wireless LANs
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Transparent unicast translation to improve quality of multicast over wireless LAN
CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
Eavesdropping wireless video packets to improve standard multicast transmission in Wi-Fi networks
ISWPC'10 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE international conference on Wireless pervasive computing
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on simulators and experimental testbeds design and development for wireless networks
Novel association control strategies for multicasting in relay-enabled WLANs
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Modeling adaptive rate video transmission in Wi-Fi MANET
Proceedings of the 7th ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
Online XOR packet coding: Efficient single-hop wireless multicasting with low decoding delay
Computer Communications
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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While the deployment of WiFi networks continue to grow at an explosive rate, the multicast multimedia delivery service on WiFi compliant devices is still in its early stage of development. The real culprit is the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol, and in particular, the absence of feedback mechanism when multicast is used. Recently, a leader-based mechanism has been proposed to overcome this problem. In this paper, we measure the characteristics of the legacy multicast transmission mechanism and analyze its flaws. Then, we study the performance of the leader-based approach and compare its performance with the standard multicast service. The analysis is done on a large set of measurements made with our wireless testbed. Such measurements are an important complement to previous simulation studies and help in the design of the best mechanism to replace the faulty legacy multicast mechanism. Our study confirms that the leader-based mechanism outperforms the standard open-loop multicast mechanism while keeping fairness among other traffic.