Title :
The multicast dissemination protocol (MDP) toolkit
Author :
Macker, Joseph P. ; Adamson, R. Brian
Author_Institution :
Div. of Inf. Technol., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
fDate :
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The multicast dissemination protocol (MDP) provides reliable multicast file and data delivery on top of the generic UDP/IP multicast transport. Early work on MDP was deployed across the global Internet multicast backbone (Mbone) as part of the publicly available image multicaster (IMM) application. This paper describes more recent work on MDP resulting in the MDP version 2 (MDPv2) toolkit. This effort has significantly modified and generalized the MDP protocol and the associated software interface. Enhancements made to the protocol are suitable for a wide range of network environments. Additionally, integrated erasure-based repairing improves reliable multicast efficiency and robustness. We briefly discuss the protocol design, general performance characteristics, and ongoing MDP work including: initial rate-based congestion control design and results, network simulation and modeling, and asymmetric satellite operation
Keywords :
Internet; computer network reliability; multicast communication; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; MDP protocol; MDP toolkit; MDP version 2 toolkit; MDPv2 toolkit; asymmetric satellite operation; data delivery; generic UDP/IP multicast transport; image multicaster; initial rate-based congestion control; integrated erasure-based repairing; multicast dissemination protocol toolkit; network simulation; performance characteristics; protocol design; reliable multicast efficiency; reliable multicast file delivery; robustness; software interface; Data engineering; Information technology; Internet; Laboratories; Multicast protocols; Reliability engineering; Robustness; Spine; Transport protocols; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference Proceedings, 1999. MILCOM 1999. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Atlantic City, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5538-5
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.1999.822759