Multicast transport protocols: a survey and taxonomy

Author

Obraczka, Katia

Author_Institution

Inf. Sci. Inst., Univ. of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA

Volume

36

Issue

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

94

Lastpage

102

Abstract

Network support for multicast has triggered the development of group communication applications such as multipoint data dissemination and multiparty conferencing tools. To support these applications, several multicast transport protocols have been proposed and implemented. Multicast transport protocols have been an area of active research for the past couple of years. This article summarizes the activities in this work-in-progress area by surveying several multicast transport protocols. It also presents a taxonomy to classify the surveyed protocols according to several distinct features, discusses the rationale behind the protocol´s design decisions, and presents some current research-issues in multicast protocol design

Keywords

Internet; data communication; groupware; standardisation; telecommunication channels; teleconferencing; transport protocols; Internet; Internet Engineering Task Force; Internet Research Task Force; group communication applications; groupware application; multicast protocol design; multicast transport protocols; multiparty conferencing tools; multipoint data dissemination; research activity; standardization; Broadcasting; Centralized control; Computer buffers; Error correction; Feedback control; Multicast protocols; Scalability; Taxonomy; Telecommunication network reliability; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.649333

Filename

649333