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Novel Association Control Strategies For Multicasting In Relay-Enabled Wlans, Kwan-Wu Chin, Shinan Li

Associate Professor Kwan-Wu Chin

Multicast is a fundamental communication service in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Unfortunately, multicast packets are transmitted at the base rate needlessly, which prevents rich multimedia contents from being delivered to users. To this end, a number of prior studies have proposed to increase multicast capacity whereby an Access Point (AP) transmits at the highest data rate that can be decoded by all subscribers. Another approach is by controlling subscriber-AP associations such that a given objective, e.g., AP load, is met. Moreover, they have also proposed using relays to help boost stations with weak channel condition. In this paper, we …