FIELD: radio engineering, communication.
SUBSTANCE: method and system include a source station for providing wireless multicast transmission to a plurality of destination stations according to a protocol adaptation layer multicast management protocol. The protocol adaptation layer may lie above the MAC layer. The multicast management protocol includes formation, maintenance, and termination procedures.
EFFECT: enabling communication control using PAL formation, maintenance and termination procedures, while enabling reporting, as feedback, reasons for failure of the forming procedure or enabling determination of continued existence of a data stream.
14 cl, 10 dwg
