Average multicast delay for FEC/DIFFSERV over IP and MPLS homogeneous networks

Author

Alwehaibi, A. ; Kadoch, Michael ; El Hakeem, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

1180

Abstract

In order to provide QoS in group communications for real time applications such as video conferencing, reliable multicasting is used. Miscellaneous efforts have been undertaken to provide reliability on top of IP multicast. In this paper, we present a new fair share policy (FSP) that utilizes Differentiated Services to solve the problems of QoS and congestion control when reliable FEC multicast is adopted. The results should provide insight into the comparisons between IP multicast in MPLS networks using FSP and plain IP multicasting using the same policy when DiffServ are adopted and when reliable FEC multicast is considered.

Keywords

IP networks; forward error correction; multicast protocols; multiprotocol label switching; quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; FEC/DIFFSERV over IP networks; MPLS homogeneous networks; QoS problems; average multicast delay; complete binary tree; congestion control; coupled state diagrams; differentiated services; fair share policy; forward error correction; group communications; reliable multicasting; traffic policing; video conferencing; Analytical models; Application software; Computer network reliability; Diffserv networks; Forward error correction; Multiprotocol label switching; Quality of service; Telecommunication network reliability; Traffic control; Virtual private networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2003. ICECS 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 10th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8163-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2003.1301723

Filename

1301723