A Cost-Based Approach to a Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol

Author

Solera-Delgado, Marta ; Sallent, Sebastia

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2006

fDate

27-30 Nov. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper we provide a new approach to estimate the link usage of multicast reliable transport protocols. It can be used as a benchmark to evaluate their scalability. We have chosen, as a case study, a multicast reliable transport protocol called RCCMP. It has been designed to be simple, scalable, reliable and TCP-friendly. The link cost is due to data, retransmitted data, and characteristic packets of multicast protocols such as control packets. For RCCMP, control packets are used to estimate the number of receivers involved in the session. Also, the reliability cost has to be added to the bandwidth consumption. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed models are able to predict the bandwidth usage.

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; benchmark testing; multicast communication; performance evaluation; telecommunication network reliability; transport protocols; RCCMP; TCP; bandwidth usage prediction; benchmark; control packets; cost-based approach; link usage estimation; multicast transport protocol reliability; scalability evaluation; Bandwidth; Communication system control; Costs; Feedback; Multicast protocols; Predictive models; Scalability; Throughput; Transport protocols; Unicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technology, 2006. ICCT '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0800-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCT.2006.341668

Filename

4146272