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

Claim 10:
11. 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 whether to convert multicast frames to unicast frames based on a size of the multicast group, a data rate of the client devices, and an amount of channel capacity occupied if the multicast frames were converted to the unicast frames;
based on the determination of whether to convert the multicast frames:
set a quality of service parameter to limit a number of transmissions for a unicast frame;
instruct the transceiver to transmit the unicast frame to each of the client devices;
update a unicast data rate for each of the plurality of client devices based on the transmission of the 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.