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Re: Big Temporary Networks


From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:42:40 +0900

Jay Ashworth wrote:

You're saying that *receiving* multicast streams over WLAN works poorly?

Multicast/broadcast over congested WLAN works poorly, because
there can be no ACK.

That is, multicast/broadcast packets lost by collisions are
never sent again.

                                                Masataka Ohta



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