A practical proactive hybrid FEC/ARQ technique for reliable multi-session multicast communication

Author

Li, Ji ; Xu, Qingfeng ; Elhakeem, A.K. ; Bennani, Moria ; Kadoch, Michel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

519

Abstract

The application of FEC to multicast communication has seen significant developments recently. In this work, we have developed a new multi-session multicast QoS scheme using a hybrid proactive FEC/ARQ technique, and used a laboratory test-bed in order to evaluate this scheme. Our preliminary evaluation of hybrid proactive FEC/ARQ technique suggests shorter transmission time, decreased NAK traffic, and improved bandwidth utilization (reduced retransmission packets) when compared to the traditional ARQ reliable multicast technique.

Keywords

Reed-Solomon codes; automatic repeat request; error correction codes; forward error correction; multicast protocols; quality of service; routing protocols; telecommunication computing; telecommunication congestion control; Reed-Solomon erasure correcting code; control messages; decreased NAK traffic; improved bandwidth utilization; multicast QoS scheme; multicast congestion control; multicast routing table; proactive hybrid FEC-ARQ technique; reliable multisession multicast communication; shorter transmission time; Application software; Automatic repeat request; Bandwidth; Computer network reliability; Forward error correction; Multicast communication; Routing; Telecommunication network reliability; Testing; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2003. ICECS 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 10th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8163-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2003.1301836

Filename

1301836