METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION OF MULTICAST PACKETS OVER A LOCAL AREA NETWORK, RELATED NETWORK AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR

摘要

Transmission of multicast packets over a local area network is controlled by: identifying the condition where only a single receiver exists within the local area network for a given multicast group of packets, and allowing, upon occurrence of that condition, Automatic Repeat Request of the packets multicast towards said single receiver. A preferred field of application is wireless local area networks for use in a home environment.