“…For example, paper [ 11 ] discusses the advantageous of multicast transmission in WSNs, while algorithms and protocols for multicast transmission in WSN can be found, for example, in [ 12 , 13 ]. Moreover, some papers, such as [ 14 , 15 , 16 ], consider multicast transmission for the particular throughput maximization problem that we dealt with in this paper. In particular, the numerical section presented in [ 16 ] contains a comparison of unicast vs. multicast routing efficiency, highlighting the gain that is achieved by utilizing multicast in WSNs.…”