Patent ID: 8295219
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a wireless transceiver configured to wirelessly communicate with a plurality of recipients; control logic coupled to the wireless transceiver and operable to send data via the wireless transceiver; wherein the control logic is configured to determine an amount of bandwidth for sending a multi-destination packet directed as a multicast packet to a multicast group comprising at least two members; wherein the control logic is configured to determine, based on at least two different unicast rates of the at least two members comprising the multicast group, an amount of bandwidth for sending the multi-destination packet as unicast packets to each of the at least two members of the multicast group individually, the amount of bandwidth including a time period for a channel to be clear before sending a packet; and wherein the control logic sends the multi-destination packet as unicast packets to each of the at least two members of the multicast group at a highest available throughput rate for each individual recipient of the multicast group responsive to determining the unicast packets would use less bandwidth than sending a single multicast packet to the multicast group.