Many of the proposed multicast congestion avoidance algorithms are single-rate where heterogeneity is accommodated by adjusting the transmission rate as a response to the worst receiver in the group. Due to the Internet heterogeneity, a single-rate congestion control affects the overall satisfaction of the receivers in a multicast session. In this paper, we propose a multi-rate replicated schem...

Traditionally, a multicast message is sent once by a sender. All receivers will receive the same message but may receive it at different times. This may result in unfair advantage for some receivers. Simultaneous Multicast (SM) applications require that all receivers receive the same message at the same time. SM protocols therefore need to meet a strict deadline to ensure that each receiver wil...

n this work we examine blind adaptive and iterative decision feedback (DF) receivers for direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems in frequency selective channels. Code-constrained minimum variance (CMV) and constant modulus (CCM) design criteria for DF receivers based on constrained optimization techniques are investigated for scenarios subject to multipath. Computational...

With the rapid growth of wireless networks and great success of Internet video, wireless video services are expected to be widely deployed in the near future. As different types of wireless networks are converging into all IP networks, i.e., the Internet, it is important to study video delivery over the wireless Internet. This paper proposes a novel end-system based adaptation protocol called W...

In this paper, we propose MCA, an end-to-end multicast congestion avoidance scheme with feedback suppression. Congestion avoidance [7] is different from congestion control in the sense that our scheme detects and responds to network congestion without necessarily inducing packet loss. Our scheme is a single-rate scheme and operates end-to-end, i.e. the sending rate is controlled by the source b...

Multicast refers to the transmission of data from one sender to an arbitrary set of receivers, a service useful for applications such as group conferencing, media distribution, and update of replicated databases. From an application viewpoint, the importance of multicast is that it allows adressing a set of receivers via a common identifier. From a network viewpoint, the importance of multicast...

This paper describes the limiting behavior of linear and decision feedback equalizers (DFEs) in single/multiple antenna systems employing real/complex-valued modulation alphabets. The wideband frequency-selective channel is modeled using a Rayleigh fading channel model with infinite number of time domain channel taps. Using this model, we show that the considered equalizers offer a fixed post d...

This paper describes the limiting behavior of linear and decision feedback equalizers (DFEs) in single/multiple antenna systems employing real/complex-valued modulation alphabets. The wideband frequency selective channel is modeled using a Rayleigh fading channel model with infinite number of time domain channel taps. Using this model, we show that the considered equalizers offer a fixed post s...

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the multicast decoding delay of generalized instantly decodable network coding (G-IDNC) over persistent forward and feedback erasure channels with feedback intermittence. In such environment, the sender does not always receive acknowledgement from the receivers after each transmission. Moreover, both the forward and feedback channels are subj...

Multicast is an efficient paradigm for transmitting data from a sender to a group of receivers. In this paper, we focus on multicast in single channel multi-access wireless local area networks (LANs) comprising several small cells. In such a system, a receiver cannot correctly receive a packet if two or more packets are sent to it at the same time, because the packets “collide”. Therefore, one ...