A reliable multicast session protocol for collaborative continuous-feed applications
Walid Mostafa, Mukesh Kumar Singhal · 1997
This paper presents a reliable multicast session protocol for collaborative continuous-feed applications.The protocol supports NxN group multicast communications at the session layer and runs on the top of existing reliable transport protocols (e.g., TCP).It does not assume multicast support at the network layer.The protocol is portable as a network-layer-independent library that is suitable for both LAN and WAN environments.It multiplexes messages from different nodes into transport packets to reduce the transport-layer processing requirements per message.It requires only two transport-level connections per node, irrespective of the multicast group size, to reduce the processing requirements of acknowledgements and retransmissions per node.Analytical studies show that the protocol yields higher throughput than general sender-initiated and receiver-initiated reliable multicast transport protocols.