| 摘要 |
A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) (20) may include a plurality of mobile nodes (21-28) each including a wireless communications device (30) and a controlle r (31) connected thereto. The controller (31) may operate in accordance with a multi-layer protocol hierarchy (32~). More particularly, at an upper protoco l layer (36~), the controller (31) may establish a quality-of-service (Qos) threshold. Furthermore, at at least one intermediate protocol layer (40~) below the upper protocol layer (36~), the controller (31) may select between unicast and multicast communications modes based upon the QoS threshold. As such, at a lower protocol layer (44~) below the at least one intermediate protocol layer (40~), the controller (31~) may cooperate with the wireless communications device (30) to transmit data to at least one destination mobi le node (25) based upon the selected communications mode. |
