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Multicasting vs. Broadcasting: What Are the Trade-Offs?

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Multicasting vs. Broadcasting: What Are the Trade-Offs?
Network-wide broadcasting and multicasting are two important routing schemes used in group communications. In network-wide broadcasting, generated packets at the source node are distributed to all nodes in the network, while multicasting delivers the packets only to a subset of the nodes by creating and maintaining a data dissemination structure. Due to the overhead in multicasting, in certain situations, it is more efficient to use network-wide broadcasting instead of multicasting, even when the data is destined to a subset of the nodes. In this paper we analyze a specific broadcasting protocol and a specific multicasting protocol for two performance metrics, namely spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency, and determine the conditions that make one of them preferable over the other.
Bora Karaoglu, Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman
Added 11 Feb 2011
Updated 11 Feb 2011
Type Journal
Year 2010
Where GLOBECOM
Authors Bora Karaoglu, Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman
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