Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many Bulk-Data Transfer
Brian Whetten, Lorenzo Vicisano, Roger G. Kermode, Mark James Handley, Sally Floyd, Michael G. Luby · 2001
This document describes a framework for the standardization of bulk- data reliable multicast transport. It builds upon the experience gained during the deployment of several classes of contemporary reliable multicast transport, and attempts to pull out the commonalities between these classes of protocols into a number of To that end, this document recommends that certain components that are common to multiple classes be standardized as building blocks. The remaining parts of the protocols, consisting of highly specific, tightly intertwined functions, shall be designated as protocol cores. Thus, each can then be constructed by merging a protocol core with a number of building blocks which can be re-used across multiple protocols.