A Framework for Reliable Multicast in the Internet
Michael Fuchs, Christophe Diot, Thierry Turletti, Markus Hofmann · 1998
This document presents the Reliable Multicast Framing Protocol (RMFP). RMFP is an ALF-based framework for protocols that can be integrated as protocol profiles. In this report two proles are described: One for Scalable Reliable Multicast (SRM) and one for the Local Group Concept (LGC). Additionally to the specications of RMFP and the profiles the report describes the design and implementation of an object-oriented RMFP link library. The implementation contains an API and a SRM (Scalable Reliable Multicast) profile. Other profiles are planned to follow. The key features of this implementation are the unified API to all protocol profiles implemented and a class interface to include implementations of new protocol proles in an easy manner.