|
|
Congestion Control Algorithm for Tree-based Reliable Multicast Protocols, A
|
Author(s):
|
|
Dah Ming Chiu, Miriam Kadansky, Joe Provino, Joseph Wesley, Hans-Peter Bischof and Haifeng Zhu
|
|
Report Number:
|
Date Published:
|
Available Formats:
|
|
TR-2001-97
|
June 2001
|
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Postscript (PS)
Request Hard Copy
|
| Abstract |
|
This paper contains a detailed description of the congestion control
algorithm of TRAM, a tree-based reliable multicast protocol. This
algorithm takes advantage of regular acknowledgements from the receivers
that propagate back to the sender via the repair tree. This scalable
feedback mechanism is used to collect receiver credits. Complementing the
windowing mechanism, packet transmission is smoothed by using a data rate
commensurate with the window size. Additional details, such as how to prune
slow receivers, and how to implement the rate scheduler on non-real-time
systems are also discussed. The performance of the congestion control
algorithm is then evaluated in extended LANs, and wide area networks. The
fairness of bandwidth-sharing with other (TCP) traffic is also evaluated.
|
|
|
