On Rate Adjustment Mechanism for Reliable Multicast Transmission in ForCES

A multicast congestion control mechanism for reliable multicast

This paper evaluates a congestion control mechanism for reliable multicast applications that uses a small dynamic set of group members or representatives to provide timely and accurate feedback on behalf of congested subtrees of a multicast distribution tree Our algorithm does not need to compute round trip time RTT from all receivers to the source nor does it require knowledge of group members...

Performance Modelling of Reliable Multicast Transmission

Our aim is to investigate reliable transmission for multicast communication and explore its relationship to multicast routing. We derive two characterizations that enable the comparison of routing algorithms and error recovery mechanisms with respect to the multicast tree topology, namely the probability mass function of successful receptions and the expected number of retransmissions needed to...

Distributed Mechanism Design for Multicast Transmission

In the standard Mechanism Design framework (Hurwicz-Reiter [1]), there is a central authority that gathers agents’ messages and subsequently determines the allocation and tax for each agent. We consider a scenario where, due to communication overhead and other constraints, such broadcasting of messages to a central authority cannot take place. Instead, only local message exchange is allowed bet...

A TCP friendly, rate-based mechanism for NACK-oriented reliable multicast congestion control

In this paper, we describe ongoing work in adding congestion control extensions to an existing negative acknowledgement (NACK) oriented reliable multicast protocol. Our previous work adopted and used the concept of a dynamic worst path representative for equation-based rate adaptation at the multicast source and we have further refined this approach and present results here. We present an overv...

Organizing Data Transmission for Reliable Multicast over Satellite Links