A ring-tree-based acknowledgement mechanism for reliable multicasting

Author

Leng, Koh Chow ; Muhammad, M.R.B.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Technol., Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Selangor, Malaysia

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

82

Abstract

Traditional reliable multicasting is achieved by means of tree-based and ring-based acknowledgement protocols. Tree-based protocol provides good scalability but may incur long communication delays due to the hierarchical acknowledgement path. Ring-based protocol is throughput efficiency but requires large buffer. This paper proposed a ring-tree based acknowledgement mechanism that combined the strong points of both the tree-based and ring-based protocols. The results show that the new protocol is able to achieve the combined strength of its original protocols.

Keywords

multicast protocols; network topology; routing protocols; hierarchical acknowledgement path; long communication delays; multicasting; ring-based acknowledgement protocols; ring-tree based acknowledgement mechanism; tree-based acknowledgement protocols; Delay; Information technology; Multicast communication; Multicast protocols; Network servers; Scalability; Telecommunication network reliability; Throughput; Tree graphs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2003. APCC 2003. The 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8114-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2003.1274316

Filename

1274316