MULTICAST GROUP ADDRESS SIGNALING USING MAC HEADER FOR POWER SAVE DELIVERY IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

摘要

Various embodiments are disclosed relating to multicast group address signaling using a MAC header for power save delivery in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, a multicast management frame (201) (e.g., a multicast 802.11n Power Save Multi Poll (PSMP) frame) may be transmitted to identify a scheduled multicast data transmission to one or more receiver nodes in a wireless network. The multicast management frame may include a multicast group address provided in a Medium Access Control (MAC) destination address field (203) of a MAC header (202) of the management frame (201). The management frame may also include one or more downlink transmission fields (227, 229) to identify a time and/or duration of the scheduled multicast data transmission.