摘要 |
A wireless ad-hoc multicast network including a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes being designated with a dynamically determined role, a plurality of the nodes being designated with the role of super-node and the remaining nodes being designated with the role of ordinary-node, the super-node designated nodes forming a routing backbone of the network, the nodes forming at least one multicast group, each of the nodes including a transmitter, a receiver, a local topology processor, a network topology processor, a backbone multicast processor and a local multicast processor, the local topology processor being coupled with the transmitter and with the receiver, the network topology processor being coupled with the transmitter, the receiver and with the local topology processor, the backbone multicast processor being coupled with the transmitter, the receiver and with the network topology processor, the local multicast processor being coupled with the transmitter, the receiver, the backbone multicast processor and with the local topology processor.
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