RCCMP: a TCP-friendly reliable multicast transport protocol

Author

Kirschberg, Javier Muñoz ; Delgado, Marta Solera ; Ribes, Sebastià Sallent

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Malaga Univ., Spain

fYear

2005

Firstpage

730

Lastpage

735

Abstract

This paper introduces a reliable multicast transport protocol RCCMP (reliable congestion controlled multicast protocol) that has been designed to be simple, scalable, reliable and TCP-friendly. The congestion control is a central part of the protocol, where the feedback of the worst receiver is used to control a transmission window in a TCP-like fashion. The scalability issue is addressed with an exponential timers scheme, that is also used to estimate the number of receivers involved in the communication. The protocol neither needs support from network elements nor maintains state information dependent of the number of receivers. The paper presents a number of simulation results on its performance. Besides, some design choices are evaluated.

Keywords

Internet; computer network reliability; multicast protocols; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; TCP; congestion control; exponential timers scheme; reliable congestion controlled multicast protocol; reliable multicast transport protocol; Centralized control; Collaboration; Communication system control; Feedback; IP networks; Multicast communication; Multicast protocols; Scalability; Telecommunication traffic; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 2005. ISCC 2005. Proceedings. 10th IEEE Symposium on

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2373-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2005.130

Filename

1493806