A survey of multicasting over wireless access networks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 718-753

  Vella, Jean Marie ^a   Zammit, Saviour ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Adaptation Schemes; Cooperative Relaying; Error Recovery Schemes; MAC Layer Multicast Protocols; Multicasting; Reliability; Resource Allocation; Video Streaming; Wireless Access Networks

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION SCHEME; COOPERATIVE RELAYING; ERROR RECOVERY SCHEMES; MULTICAST PROTOCOL; WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ERROR CORRECTION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RELIABILITY; RESEARCH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVEYS; VIDEO STREAMING;

MULTICASTING;

EID: 84877575665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2012.050412.00095     Document Type: Article

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