Congestion Control in Multicast Transport Protocols

Authors

Rajib Ghosh, Washington University in St Louis
George Varghese, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

1998-01-01

Filename

WUCS-98-19.PDF

Technical Report Number

WUCS-98-19

Abstract

We discuss congestion control mechanisms in multicast transport protocols and we propose TCP-M - a TCP-friendly Multicast transport protocol. TCP-M uses IP multicast to deliver data packets and acknowledgements to provide reliability. Ack implosion at the source is prevented by fusing acknowledgements at some intermediate routers. TCP-M reacts to network congestion exactly like TCP by having the sender emulate a TCP sender.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K70Z71HP

Recommended Citation

Ghosh, Rajib and Varghese, George, "Congestion Control in Multicast Transport Protocols" Report Number: WUCS-98-19 (1998). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/471