Robust broadcast: improving the reliability of broadcast transmissions on CSMA/CA

Author

Tourrilhes, Jean

Author_Institution

Hewlett Packard Labs., Bristol, UK

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

8-11 Sep 1998

Firstpage

1111

Abstract

This paper presents a scheme to improve the efficiency of radio MAC protocols in the case of broadcast and multicast transmissions, like TCP/IP multicasting. First, the reliability problems with broadcast packets and their consequences are analysed. Then the robust broadcast scheme is presented, which decreases the probability of loss of broadcast packets over MAC protocols based on CSMA/CA. Finally, the new protocol is simulated against other simple solutions to show how it performs

Keywords

broadcasting; carrier sense multiple access; multicast communication; packet radio networks; telecommunication network reliability; transport protocols; wireless LAN; CSMA/CA; TCP/IP multicasting; broadcast packets; broadcast transmission reliability; efficiency; loss probability; multicast transmissions; radio MAC protocols; robust broadcast; simulation; wireless LAN; Broadcast technology; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Multicast protocols; Multimedia communication; Radio broadcasting; Robustness; TCPIP; Unicast; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1998. The Ninth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4872-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.1998.731349

Filename

731349