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Enhancing Communication Efficiency in Wireless LAN Through Cooperative Packet Transmission Scheduling For Multicast and Unicast Flows
Enhancing Communication Efficiency in Wireless LAN Through Cooperative Packet Transmission Scheduling For Multicast and Unicast Flows
1.2 40
Proposed method
Partial proposed method 20
1 Minimum proposed method
Unicast Throughput (Mbit/s)
DCF
0
0.8 0 2 4 6 8 10
Number of STAs Receiving Only Unicast
0.6
0.4
Fig. 7. Unicast packet transfer delay.
0.2
120
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 100 Proposed method
Partial proposed method
Number of STAs Receiving Only Unicast
80 Minimum proposed method
Multicast Delay (ms)
DCF
40
5
20
4
Multicast Throughput (Mbit/s)
0
0 2 4 6 8 10
0
0 2 4 6 8 10
Number of STAs Receiving Only Unicast
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