Reliable Dissemination For Large-Scale Wide-Area Information Systems
Raj Yavatkar, James N. Griffioen · 2005
This paper describes a reliable multicast protocol (TMTP) that that can be built at the transport layer without modification to the network-level routers. The protocol combines the best of sender and receiver initiated protocols to distribute protocol processing and localize retransmission. Experimental results obtained across Internet MBONE sites in the USA and Europe are presented. 1 Introduction Over the past few years the Internet has emerged as a communication utility as ubiquitous as the phone service. This change has had a dramatic affect on the way people communicate and share information. As a result, it has spawned widespread development efforts focusing on wide-area distributed information systems. Wide-area information systems include applications for information exchange between users, dissemination of information to users, or even communication of data amongst parallel processes. These wide-area information systems encompass such application domains as electronic publis...