Reliable Multicast Transport and Integrated Erasure-Based Forward Error Correction

Abstract

Abstract

The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) Toolkit

“…After the protocol description, we presented empirical results demonstrating overhead reduction and delay improvements resulting from MDP multicast parity-based repairing. These results compare well with previous analytical projections [Macker97a]. Finally, early NRL research and results regarding rate-based multicast congestion control were discussed.…”

“…In this section, we discuss a few experiments and summarize results. An earlier paper [Macker97a] presented analytical results predicting significant protocol improvements in efficiency for NACK-based reliable multicast when using proposed parity packet repairing methods. MDP now provides an implemented model of that proposal and an example empirical study was performed using protocol parameters similar to those used in the earlier analytical study.…”

Algorithms for energy-efficient multicasting in ad hoc wireless networks

“…There are numerous and complex issues that must be addressed in wireless multicasting (e.g., see [4,15]). In this paper we focus on a single aspect of the multicasting problem, namely the incorporation of energy considerations into the construction of multicast trees and the choice of transmission power levels.…”

Negative-Acknowledgment (NACK)-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Building Blocks

“…Multiple forward error correction (FEC) approaches have been identified that can provide great performance enhancements to the repair process of NACK-oriented and other reliable multicast protocols [11], [12], [13]. NORM protocols can reap additional benefits since FEC-based repair does not _generally_ require explicit knowledge of repair content within the bounds of its coding block size (in symbols).…”