Apparatus, system and method of group transmission acknowledgement
First Claim
1. An apparatus of a wireless communication access point, the apparatus comprising:
- a transmitter component;
a receiver component;
one or more antennas coupled to the transmitter component and the receiver component; and
a processor component configured to selectively request two or more stations of a group of stations, which includes a plurality of stations, to acknowledge group transmissions to be transmitted from said access point to said group of stations, said processor component configured to select the two or more stations of the group of stations based on at least a priority category corresponding to the group transmissions.
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for reliable multicast communication over wireless network are provided. According to embodiments of the invention, the method includes determining a priority category for a multicast communication to be transmitted. The method includes designating, for the multicast communication, one of the multicast communication recipients as a leader based on the priority category and multicast diagnostics information received from the multicast communication recipients. The leader is assigned to transmit to the multicast communication source an acknowledgment frame indicating receipt of a multicast communication frame received from the source.
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9 Claims
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1. An apparatus of a wireless communication access point, the apparatus comprising:
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a transmitter component; a receiver component; one or more antennas coupled to the transmitter component and the receiver component; and a processor component configured to selectively request two or more stations of a group of stations, which includes a plurality of stations, to acknowledge group transmissions to be transmitted from said access point to said group of stations, said processor component configured to select the two or more stations of the group of stations based on at least a priority category corresponding to the group transmissions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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