On Robust Multicast in Multi-channel Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks

The multicast problem in multi-channel multi-radio wireless mesh networks has received much attention recently. Most recent studies on this problem focus on improving the network throughput. However, many real-world applications require routing algorithms to achieve low-delay and low-loss. In this paper, we tackle the problem of constructing a robust minimum-cost multicast tree that tolerates link interference. To save bandwidth resource and alleviate the interference in the communication, we propose a robust multicast algorithm for multi-channel multi-radio wireless mesh networks. Our experimental results show that our algorithm is very efficient to achieve better performances in network throughput and end-to-end delay than previous studies.