Reliable multicast transport to large groups
Joerg Nonnenmacher · 1998
The thesis investigates the reliable transport from one sender to a group of receivers (multicast). It is often stated that network support is required to allow for efficient reliable multicast. This thesis shows that this is not the case. Efficient reliable multicast is possible on a pure end-to-end basis even for a very large number of In the case of data loss in the network, reliability is efficiently provided, if receivers signal the loss to the sender and the sender in turn performs a retransmission of the missing data. The complexity of such a system increases with the number of receivers. Both, the number of retransmissions to be performed by the sender and the amount of feedback returned to the sender increases with the number of receivers.