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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2010
Yigal Bejerano, Springfield, NJ (US);
Gabriela M. Abramovici, Berkeley Heights, IL (US);
Katherine H. Guo, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Tuvia Izsak, Livingston, NJ (US);
Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Edison, NJ (US);
Yigal Bejerano, Springfield, NJ (US);
Gabriela M. Abramovici, Berkeley Heights, IL (US);
Katherine H. Guo, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Tuvia Izsak, Livingston, NJ (US);
Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Edison, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Various methods and devices are provided to address the need for improved multicast operation. In one method, a station transmits () a multicast packet to a plurality of mobile devices and to a group of monitoring stations (MSs). An indication of whether the multicast packet was received by that MS is received () from each monitoring station (MS) of the group of MSs. When this indication indicates that the multicast packet was not received, the multicast packet is retransmitted () to the plurality of mobile devices and to the group of MSs.