METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION WITH MERGED AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST FOR RELIABLE MULTICAST IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS

摘要

A method and apparatus are described for increasing multicasting reliability, including receiving content and a first layer of a plurality of a forward error correction coded packets from a first multicast group and joining an additional multicast group in order to receive one of additional layers of forward error correction coded packets and the content along with a further additional layer of the plurality of forward error correction coded packets.