Patent ID: 11917501
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
a transceiver to communicate multicast frames to client devices in a multicast group; and
a controller configured to:
determine that a predetermined time has passed since the transceiver most recently sent a unicast transmission to one of the client devices;
determine an expected multicast traffic;
generate a dummy unicast frame having a payload that mimics the expected multicast traffic;
instruct the transceiver to transmit the dummy unicast frame to each of the client devices;
compute a unicast data rate for each of the client devices based on the transmission of the dummy unicast frame to each of the client devices; and
determine a multicast data rate by selecting a median unicast data rate of a subset of the computed unicast data rates;

the transceiver communicating multicast frames to the client devices in accordance with the determined multicast rate.