Multicast Rate Adaptation in WLAN via NDN

Multicast rate adaptation in WLAN has become a hot topic from the research community. However, wireless IP multicast lacks in feedback mechanism from the receiver and also no retransmission mechanism from packet loss. To achieve multicast reliability, multicast data is always transmitted at the basic data rate (e.g., 1Mbps for 802.11b). Moreover, wireless NDN multicast is essentially different from traditional wireless IP multicast. NDN multicast composition is based on Pending Interest Table (PIT) state information, which significantly increases the dynamics of the multicast groups. In this paper, we propose a multicast rate adaptation scheme to dynamically select the multicast transmission rate for NDN multicast communication. We present a mapping mechanism between the PIT entry and the MAC address of the station. To reduce the multicast transmission time, we propose a multi-rate multicast transmission scheme for the dynamic NDN multicast groups. In addition, we use the NDN caching mechanism to improve the reliability and reduce the transmission delay when the multicast data loss. Simulation results show that the proposed multicast rate adaptation scheme can effectively reduce transmission time while achieving lower delay and packet loss rate.