Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 2005. ISCC 2005. Proceedings. 10th IEEE Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2373-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.2005.130
