IRMA: a reliable multicast architecture for the Internet

Author

Lee, Kang-Won ; Ha, Sungwon ; Bharghavan, Vaduvur

Author_Institution

Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

21-25 Mar 1999

Firstpage

1274

Abstract

The Illinois Reliable Multicast Architecture (IRMA) is a reliable multicast architecture that guarantees reliable, sequenced, and loosely synchronized delivery of multicast streams. IRMA provides ACK-based reliability, hybrid local server-initiated and sender-initiated loss recovery, and support for end-to-end flow control and congestion control. Unlike most contemporary work, IRMA supports TCP as the reliable multicast transport protocol at the end host without modifications. IRMA has been instantiated in a laboratory testbed, and its performance has been measured in various scenarios. Preliminary performance results show that IRMA is efficient and adaptive to the dynamics of the network

Keywords

Internet; computer network reliability; multicast communication; network servers; performance evaluation; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; ACK-based reliability; IRMA; Illinois Reliable Multicast Architecture; Internet; TCP; end-to-end congestion control; end-to-end flow control; hybrid local server-initiated loss recovery; laboratory testbed; loosely synchronized delivery; multicast streams; network dynamics; performance results; reliable multicast architecture; reliable multicast streams delivery; reliable multicast transport protocol; sender-initiated loss recovery; sequenced multicast streams; Application software; Communication system control; Data communication; Laboratories; Multicast protocols; TCPIP; Testing; Transport protocols; Unicast; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '99. Eighteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

0743-166X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5417-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1999.752145

Filename

752145