A reliability window for flexible and scalable multicast services

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Author(s)
Mulik, J.
Date Issued
2002
Publisher
IEEE
Related Publication(s)
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Start page
1241
End page
1247
Abstract
This paper proposes a simple mechanism to allow reliability to be traded off against performance and scalability in a reliable multicast transport protocol. A reliability window is used in the data packet header to indicate which packets are useful to recover if lost. In addition, we describe a simple API that allows applications to set the reliability window in a way meaningful to the application. The usefulness of the trade-off is demonstrated using experimental results from a test network. We expect this mechanism to be useful for large-scale content distribution where the content ages over time.
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