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Inter-Receiver Fair Multicast Communication over the Internet
Inter-Receiver Fair Multicast Communication over the Internet
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Zegura, Ellen W.
Ammar, Mostafa H.
Jiang, Tianji
Ammar, Mostafa H.
Jiang, Tianji
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Multicast protocols target applications involving a large number
of receivers with heterogeneous data reception capabilities.To
accommodate heterogeneity, the sender may transmit at multiple
rates, requiring mechanisms to determine the rates and allocate
receivers. In this paper, we develop a protocol to control the
rate of a multicast session, with the goal of maximizing the
inter-receiver fairness, an intra-session measure that
captures the collective "satisfaction" of the session receivers.
Our target environment is the Internet, where fair sharing of
bandwidth must be achieved via end-system mechanisms and fairness to
TCP is important. We develop and evaluate protocols to maximize
this measure by maintaining a fixed-rate base group and a
variable-rate group. We show that our schemes offer improvement
over single-rate sessions, while maintaining TCP-friendliness.
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1999
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