Methods and apparatus for supporting multicast communications
Methods and apparatus for supporting multicast groups in networks, e.g., wireless peer to peer networks, are described. A member of a multicast group, that does not intend to transmit in a traffic interval, generates and transmits a signal on a traffic transmission request resource indicating that the device transmitting the signal does not intend to transmit multicast traffic data to the multicast group. A member of the multicast group, that intends to transmit in the traffic interval, refrains from transmitting a signal and monitors. The devices in the group which did not transmit decide which one is allowed to proceed with its intended multicast traffic transmission based on relative priority within the group.
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Thomas J. Xinzhou Junyi Shailesh
Richardson Wu Li Patil