Resource management in energy-limited, bandwidth-limited, transceiver-limited wireless networks for session-based multicasting

摘要

In this paper we consider source-initiated multicast session traffic in an ad hoc wireless network, operating under hard constraints on the available transmission energy as well as on bandwidth and transceiver resources. We describe the similarities and differences between energy-limited and energy-efficient communications, and we illustrate the im- pact of these overlapping (and sometimes conflicting) considerations on network operation.