Title :
IRMA: a reliable multicast architecture for the Internet
Author :
Lee, Kang-Won ; Ha, Sungwon ; Bharghavan, Vaduvur
Author_Institution :
Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM '99. Eighteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5417-6
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.1999.752145
