The Multicast Capacity of Large Multihop Wireless Networks Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • We consider wireless ad hoc networks with a large number of users. Subsets of users might be interested in identical information, and so we have a regime in which several multicast sessions may coexist. We first calculate an upper-bound on the achievable transmission rate per multicast flow as a function of the number of multicast sources in such a network. We then propose a simple comb-based architecture for multicast routing which achieves the upper bound in an order sense under certain constraints. Compared to the approach of constructing a Steiner tree to decide multicast paths, our construction achieves the same order-optimal results while requiring little location information and no computational overhead. Copyright 2007 ACM.

name of conference

  • Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing

published proceedings

  • MOBIHOC'07: PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTH ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKING AND COMPUTING

author list (cited authors)

  • Shakkottai, S., Liu, X., & Srikant, R.

citation count

  • 79

complete list of authors

  • Shakkottai, Srinivas||Liu, Xin||Srikant, R

editor list (cited editors)

  • Kranakis, E., Belding, E. M., & Modiano, E.

publication date

  • January 2007