• DocumentCode
    392354
  • Title

    A simulation study on multicast congestion control algorithms with multimedia traffic

  • Author

    Chilamkurti, Naveen K. ; Soh, Ben

  • Author_Institution
    Appl. Comput. Res. Inst., La Trobe Univ., Melbourne, Vic., Australia
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    17-21 Nov. 2002
  • Firstpage
    1779
  • Abstract
    STAIR (simulated TCP´s additive increase/multiplicative decrease with rate-basis) is a multicast congestion control algorithm involving both cumulative and non-cumulative layers. We have simulated STAIR with multimedia traffic to measure stability, fairness, scalability, and heterogeneity. Our simulation results clearly conclude that STAIR exhibits a high degree of fairness for CBR, but fails to do so with VBR traffic.
  • Keywords
    Internet; multicast communication; multimedia communication; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; CBR traffic; Internet traffic; TCP; VBR traffic; additive increase; fairness; heterogeneity; multicast congestion control algorithms; multimedia traffic; multiplicative decrease; rate-basis; scalability; stability; transfer protocols; Automatic control; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Multicast algorithms; Multicast protocols; Multimedia computing; Organizing; Scalability; Stability; Traffic control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002. GLOBECOM '02. IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7632-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GLOCOM.2002.1188504
  • Filename
    1188504