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

Claim 5:
6. A method, comprising:
determining, by a processor, that a predetermined time has passed since a transceiver most recently sent a unicast transmission to a client device in a multicast group;
determining, by the processor, an expected multicast traffic;
generating, by the processor, a dummy unicast frame having a payload that mimics the expected multicast traffic;
instructing, by the processor, the transceiver to transmit the dummy unicast frame to each of the client devices;
computing, by the processor, 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
determining 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.