Title :
Reliable multicasting in the Xpress transport protocol
Author :
Atwood, J. William ; Catrina, Octavian ; Fenton, John ; Strayer, W. Timothy
Author_Institution :
Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
The Xpress transport protocol (XTP) is designed to meet the needs of distributed, real-time, and multimedia systems. This paper describes the genesis of recent improvements to XTP that provide mechanisms for reliable management of multicast groups, and gives details of the mechanisms used
Keywords :
multimedia communication; real-time systems; transport protocols; XTP; Xpress transport protocol; distributed systems; multicast groups; multimedia systems; real-time systems; reliable multicasting; Damping; Error correction; Maintenance; Multicast algorithms; Multicast protocols; Multimedia systems; Real time systems; Transmitters; Transport protocols; Unicast;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks, 1996., Proceedings 21st IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7617-5
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.1996.558148
