—Multicasting is useful for various applications such as multimedia broadcasting. In current 802.11, multicast frames are sent as broadcast frames at a low transmission rate with...
— The IEEE 802.11e standard supports a Direct-Link Setup (DLS) mechanism optionally to improve the throughput. Using this mechanism, IEEE 802.11e stations in proximity can direct...
Power conservation is a general concern for mobile computing and communication. In this paper, we investigate the performance of the current 802.11 power saving mechanism (unschedu...