An approach to rate allocation in multicast

Author

Stoenescu, Tudor Mihai ; Liu, Mingyan ; Teneketzis, Demosthenis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

2100

Abstract

In multirate multicast different users in the same multicast group can receive services at different rates depending on their own requirements and the congestion level of the network. In this paper we present a general framework for addressing the optimal rate control problem in multirate multicast where the objective is the maximization of a social welfare function expressed by the sum of the users´ utility functions. We discover properties of optimal solutions of this problem. Based on these properties we describe a market mechanism that achieves an optimal solution and satisfies the informational constraints imposed by the decentralization of information in multicast service provisioning.

Keywords

multicast communication; optimal control; optimisation; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication services; information decentralization; multirate multicast networks; optimal rate control; rate allocation problem; social welfare function maximization; Audio databases; Casting; Consumer electronics; Distributed databases; Encoding; IP networks; Mechanical factors; Multicast algorithms; Optimal control; Teleconferencing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2003. Proceedings. 42nd IEEE Conference on

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7924-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2003.1272927

Filename

1272927