Title :
Reservation-based totally ordered multicasting
Author :
Chen, X. ; Moser, L.E. ; Melliar-Smith, P.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
We present an innovative totally ordered multicast protocol that is based on reservation of buffers at the destinations and intermediate network bridges, rather than on an acknowledgment strategy. By introducing timestamps into the packets and by using a buffer reservation retract scheme, our protocol not only produces a global total order of packets but also solves the deadlock and starvation problems to which reservation-based protocols are vulnerable. A discrete event simulation demonstrates the high throughput and low latency of the protocol
Keywords :
discrete event simulation; protocols; acknowledgment strategy; buffer reservation retract scheme; buffers; discrete event simulation; global total order; intermediate network bridges; low latency; multicast protocol; reservation-based totally ordered multicasting; timestamps; Bandwidth; Bridges; Communication networks; Delay; Discrete event simulation; Multicast protocols; Streaming media; System recovery; Telecommunication network reliability; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7399-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCS.1996.508000
