Multicast communications is an efficient mechanism for one-to-many transmissions over a
broadcast wireless channel, and is considered as a key technology for supporting emerging …

Multicast is a bandwidth-efficient mechanism to provide wireless services for a group of
terminals. Providing reliable wireless multicast is challenging due to packet loss and …

Multicast communication has been researched for many years in efforts to simultaneously
achieve high throughput and good fairness, which have a trade-off relationship. Recently, a …

The popularity of multimedia multicast/broadcast applications over wireless networks makes
it critical to address the error-prone, heterogeneous and dynamically changing nature of …

The Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) in WiMAX has emerged as the next-generation
wireless infrastructure to broadcast data or digital video. Multicast scheduling protocols play …

Multicast is an efficient means of transmitting the same content to multiple receivers while
minimizing network resource usage. Applications that can benefit from multicast such as …

We propose a new multicast scheduling scheme which can achieve the proportional fair
(PF) allocation in the wireless cellular systems. In case of multicast, the scheduler in the …

Wireless multicast is a spectrum efficient method for group-data transmission. This paper
focuses on energy efficient two-stage cooperative multicast transmissions, aiming to …

With the advent of various multimedia streaming applications requiring reliability and high
bandwidth, multicasting in wireless LANs has been gaining more attentions as the …

Optimized opportunistic multicast scheduling (OMS) is studied for cellular networks, where
the problem of efficiently transmitting a common set of fountain-encoded data from a single …