Abstract-Several layered multicast protocols have been proposed for congestion control in real-time multicast applications. Most of them are pure end-to-end protocols, thus having difficulty in coordinating receivers and coping with traffic variations. In this paper, we propose RALM, a new receiver-driven router-assisted layered multicast protocol. RALM achieves much better performance at the expense of moderate additional complexity in the network. RALM is incrementally deployable. We evaluate RALM through simulations, and compare its performance with RLM, the well known layered multicast protocol.
REF proposed a receiverdriven, router-assisted layered multicast protocol (RALM) to achieve enhanced performance.
Router-assisted layered multicast
2002 IEEE International Conference on Communications. Conference Proceedings. ICC 2002 (Cat. No.02CH37333)
2002 IEEE International Conference on Communications. Conference Proceedings. ICC 2002 (Cat. No.02CH37333)
Computer Science