CPC H04W 4/06 (2013.01) [H04W 40/248 (2013.01); H04L 12/189 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method comprising:
establishing, by a network management device, a wireless multicast tree topology for a wireless mesh network, the wireless multicast tree topology comprising a root network device and wireless multicast hubs providing respective wireless multicast areas, the establishing including selecting each wireless multicast hub based on a corresponding location and a corresponding wireless neighbor count; and
causing, by the network management device, the root network device to unicast transmit to a selected one or more of the wireless multicast hubs a multicast packet encapsulated within a unicast header, the unicast header causing the selected one or more of the wireless multicast hubs to multicast transmit the multicast packet within a corresponding one or more of the wireless multicast areas,
wherein the causing includes:
setting, in each wireless network device in the wireless mesh network, a prioritized multicast retry window size based on a multicast queue size and a multicast device type allocated by the network management device for the corresponding wireless network device, the multicast device type including one of the wireless multicast hubs, a multicast relay, or a wireless leaf device.
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