Abstract:
The goal of the study is to analyze the average transmission time in multicasting
heterogeneous wireless networks, considering user movements within a cell under the condition that
the cell can be divided into several areas with different channel quality. This performance measure is
analyzed against the volume of transmitted data and number of users in a cell. Three different
motion models describing user movements within a cell are studied. In order to find out the average
transmission time, an approach based on Markov control processes was implemented.
Keywords:multicasting; heterogeneous wireless network; quality of service; Markov control process;
motion model; average transmission time; dual process; queuing network.