Title :
Monitoring-based flow control for reliable multicast protocols and its evaluation
Author :
Sano, Tetsuo ; Shiroshita, Teruji ; Takahashi, Osamu ; Yamashita, Masahide
Author_Institution :
NTT Inf. & Commun. Syst. Lab., Yokosuka, Japan
Abstract :
A reliable multicast protocol distributing multimedia data such as software, electronic newspapers, and books without errors to a large number of users on the network is highly desirable. This paper presents a new flow control method that makes such a protocol feasible in real environments wherein receiver functions may degrade and/or network quality may deteriorate. The method involves rate-based flow control such that the server monitors the state of all group members affected by the network performance, and feedback observations in the multicasting rate. The efficiency of the proposed method is confirmed by experimental results
Keywords :
computer network reliability; monitoring; multimedia communication; performance evaluation; telecommunication channels; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; wide area networks; WAN; books; efficiency; electronic newspapers; experimental results; flow control method; group members; monitoring based flow control; multicasting rate; multimedia data distribution; network performance; network quality; rate based flow control; receiver functions; reliable multicast transport protocols; server; software; Application software; Books; Communication system control; Computer network reliability; Frequency measurement; Large-scale systems; Monitoring; Multicast protocols; State feedback; Telecommunication network reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 1997. IPCCC 1997., IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, Tempe, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3873-1
DOI :
10.1109/PCCC.1997.581544
