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....(pt to mpt or multicast) connections. Supporting Bg pt to mpt connection service poses a number of new challenges not encountered in providing Bg service on unicast connections. One of the major problems, especially in large multicast trees, is commonly known as the feedback implosion problem [1]. Since our goal is to adjust the source transmission rate to match the bottleneck link bandwidth, the source need to collect congestion feedbk from all branches in the multicast tree. Simultaneous congestion feedback from all branches can cause an implosion at the source, especially when the ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A multicast transport protocol," in Proc. ofACM SIGCOMM, pp. 247-256, August 1988.

....high quality services for diverse traffic through high speed ATM networks. Supporting multicast ABR service poses a number of new challenges unseen in the unicast ABR context. One of the major problems, especially in large multicast trees, is commonly known as the feedback implosion problem [1]. Since our goal is to adjust the source transmission rate to match the bottleneck link bandwidth, the source needs to collect congestion information all branches in the multicast tree. Simultaneous congestion feedbacks from all branches can cause an implosion at the source. Hence, it is important ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A multicast transport protocol," in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 247-256, August 1988.

....Go BACK N (GBN) In [ARMS92] retransmissions are always multicast. In [ARMS92] a token passing scheme is used for transmission whereby only one host may transmit at a given time. This is not practical for applications such as videoconferencing, where all hosts need to transmit simultaneously. [CrPa88] has a feature where a list of those hosts required to acknowledge packets is sent in the multicast packet. In both [BRAU93] and [CrPa88] the authors propose a threshold based scheme for retransmissions in order to achieve a compromise between unicast (which is time consuming and reduces source ....

....only one host may transmit at a given time. This is not practical for applications such as videoconferencing, where all hosts need to transmit simultaneously. CrPa88] has a feature where a list of those hosts required to acknowledge packets is sent in the multicast packet. In both [BRAU93] and [CrPa88], the authors propose a threshold based scheme for retransmissions in order to achieve a compromise between unicast (which is time consuming and reduces source throughput) and multicast (which unnecessarily increases load on those networks with no packet loss) The threshold is based on the number ....

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J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A Multicast Transport Protocol," ACM Computer Communications Review, vol. 18, pp. 247--256, August 1988.

....usually option two or three can be chosen. D. ACK Processing One important issue that concerns reliable multicast researchers regards the processing of large number of ACK packets generated by the potentially large number of receivers. This has been termed as the ACK implosion problem [10], 11] However, risking being considered a heresy, we believe ACK implosion is not a significant overhead in all but very large collections of receivers. This is because there are fewer ACK packets than data packets (per connection) 2 , and ACKs are small 3 , easy to process and do not need ....

....need to be conducted to further evaluate TCP SMO in more diverse situations. However, the experiments were representative and the results did suggest the potential and good performance of TCP SMO for a wide range of multicast applications. VI. RELATED WORK Back in 1988, Crowcroft et al. [10] described a theoretical multicast transport protocol that is to provide a service equivalent to a sequence of reliable sequential unicasts between a client and a number of servers, whilst using the broadcast nature of some networks to reduce both the number of packets transmitted and the overall ....

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....drops, none of the proposed service architectures takes into account of the feedback capabilities of TCP traffic. For instance, IntServ was designed with IP multicast traffic [19] in mind. IP multicast traffic cannot use TCP congestion control because of the ACK implosion problem described in [17]. However, it has become increasingly clear that the deployment of IP multicast was facing some major problems, and consequently, a vast majority of the applications on the Internet still rely on unicast TCP data transfers. Traffic regulation is therefore always realized by admission control ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda. A multicast transport protocol. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'88, pages 247--256, Stanford, California, August 1988.

....reliable multicast primitives to realize collective communication routines can greatly improve the communication performance since multicast reduces both the message traffic over the network and the CPU processing at the end hosts. Although many reliable multicast protocols have been proposed [1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 20, 21, 22], mostly for the wide area Internet environment, the impacts of architectural features of LANs on the performance of the protocols have not been thoroughly studied. To develop efficient reliable multicast protocols for clusters of workstations, the implication of running parallel applications over ....

....the related work. Section 3 presents the protocols we studied. Section 4 discusses the implementation issues. Section 5 reports the performance study and Section 6 concludes the paper. 2 Related work Extensive research has been conducted in the area of reliable multicast over the Internet [1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 20, 21, 22]. A summary of recent development of reliable multicast protocols can be found in [12] The protocols can be broadly classified into four types, the ACK based protocols [20, 15] where all receivers send positive acknowledgments for each packet that they receive, the NAK based protocols [4, 7, 9, ....

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....reliable multicast primitives to realize collective communication routines can greatly improve the communication performance since multicast reduces both the message traffic over the networks and the CPU requirements at the end hosts. While many reliable multicast protocols have been proposed [1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 14, 16, 24, 26, 27], mostly for multicasting in the general wide area Internet environment, the impacts of special features of LANs on the performance of the protocols have not been thoroughly studied. The features may affect, among others, the flow control, buffer management and error control mechanisms in the ....

....the four reliable multicasting protocols used in the study. Section 4 details the implementation of the protocols. Section 5 reports the performance study and Section 6 concludes the paper. 2 Related work Extensive research has been conducted in the area of reliable multicast over the Internet [1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 14, 16, 24, 26, 27]. A summary of recent development of reliable multicast protocols can be found in [13] These protocols in general focus on a number of issues including group management, flow control and the scalability issues. The protocols can be classified into four types, the ACK based protocols [24, 16] ....

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J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A Multicast Transport Protocol", in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '88, 1988.

....amount of research on reliable multicast protocols. The early work has focused on distributed systems, providing primitives for constructing distributed applications, such as the ISIS system[30] and the V kernel[31] Other early work has focused on local area networks or broadcast links [32, 33, 34, 35]. A good survey of the early work can be found in [27] Here we focus on recent work on reliable multicast that aims to provide scalability to very large groups. The vast majority of recent reliable multicast protocols use receiver reliable recovery, shown by Pingali, Towsley, and Kurose to be ....

Crowcroft, J., Paliwoda, K., "A Multicast Transport Protocol", Proc. of ACM Sigcomm'88, pp. 247256, August 1988.

....Signaling for multicast flow control introduces two additional problems: scalability and feedback synchronization. These two problems are closely interwoven in the signaling protocol for multicast flow control. First, simultaneous feedback arrivals from all branches can cause feedback implosion [7] at the source as well as at branch nodes, especially when the multicast tree is large. Hence, it is important for each branch node to consolidate the congestioninformation feedbacks from its downstream paths and then forward only the consolidated feedback to its upstream node. Second, we need a ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A multicast transport protocol," in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 247--256, August 1988.

....negative acknowledgments (NACKs) slotting, and damping. To ensure forward progress of the sender, each receiver periodically sends a positive acknowledgment (ACK) However, ACKs are only required if there are no errors (i.e. NACKs implicitly acknowledge correctly received messages. Crowcroft [30] and Cheriton [23, 24, 22] study LAN based client server applications 2 . In Crowcroft s protocol, the client maintains send and receive windows for each server in 2 In the client server domain, the servers make up the multicast group. 2.3. Real Time Multicast Protocols 14 the group. The ....

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....for multicast flow control introduces two additional problems: scalability and feedback synchronization. These two problems are closely related in the signaling protocol for multicast flow control. First, simultaneous arrivals of feedback signals from all branches can cause a feedback implosion [4] at the source, especially when the multicast tree is large. Hence, it is important for each branch point to consolidate the congestioninformation feedback from its downstream paths and send only the consolidated feedback to its upstream node. Second, we need a feedback synchronization signaling ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A multicast transport protocol," in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 247--256, August 1988.

....the role of end systems are motivated by our desire to provide the highest possible performance and the lowest possible latency. There is a substantial literature on providing reliable multicast mechanisms in networks. One of the earliest contributions was [4] More recent contributions include [1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 9, 11, 12, 13]. Much of this more work is directed toward multicast in the context of the internet protocol suite and shifts much of the responsibility for recovering lost data onto the receivers. The recent paper by Floyd, Jacobson, et al. 7] is a good example of the receiverbased recovery. This paper also ....

Crowcroft, J. and K. Paliwoda. "A Multicast Transport Protocol," Proceedings ACM SIGCOMM, 1988.

....the data for retransmission. Further, an IP multicast distribution model is assumed that makes its implementation in an ATM environment difficult and costly. Thus, SRM is strongly focused on the specific environment it was designed for and on the kind of application it aims to support. Reference [20] describes the MTP protocol that has a feature where a list of hosts that require to acknowledge packets is sent in the multicast packet. In both [21] and [20] the authors propose a threshold based scheme for retransmissions in order to achieve a trade off between unicast (which is time consuming ....

....Thus, SRM is strongly focused on the specific environment it was designed for and on the kind of application it aims to support. Reference [20] describes the MTP protocol that has a feature where a list of hosts that require to acknowledge packets is sent in the multicast packet. In both [21] and [20], the authors propose a threshold based scheme for retransmissions in order to achieve a trade off between unicast (which is time consuming and reduces source throughput) and multicast (which unnecessarily increases load on those networks with no packet losses) The threshold is based on the number ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A Multicast Transport Protocol," ACM Computer Communication Review, vol. 18, pp. 247--256, Aug. 1988.

....do not trust each other and do not want to reveal their participation in the group. This implies that they cannot cooperate to combine their feedback information in order to reduce the feedback processing load on the network and the sender, thereby eliminating the feedback implosion problem [5], 14] RTCP uses multicast of receiver reports to estimate the group size to control the feedback load [8] 13] Once again, this violates our axiom of privacy. Per group feedback therefore requires a solution where receivers address their feedback solely to the sender, with possible network ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda. A Multicast Transport Protocol. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM '88, pages 247--256, August 1988.

....for multicast flow control introduces two additional problems: scalability and feedbacksynchronization. These two problems are closely related in the signaling protocol for multicast flow control. First, simultaneous arrivals of feedback signals from all branches can cause a feedback implosion [4] at the source, especially when the multicast tree is large. Hence, it is important for each branch point to consolidate the congestion information feedback from its downstream paths and send only the consolidated feedback to its upstream node. Second, we need a feedback synchronization signaling ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A multicast transport protocol," in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 247--256, August 1988.

....amount of research on reliable multicast protocols. The early work has focused on distributed systems, providing primitives for constructing distributed applications, such as the ISIS system[67] and the V kernel[68] Other early work has focused on local area networks or broadcast links [69, 70, 71, 72, 73]. We will not cover the early work here; a good survey can be found in [64] We will focus on recent work on reliable multicast that aims to provide scalability to very large groups. As we described earlier, the vast majority of reliable multicast protocols use receiver reliable recovery which ....

Crowcroft, J., Paliwoda, K., "A Multicast Transport Protocol", Proc. of ACM Sigcomm'88, pp. 247-256, August 1988.

....(ACK) for every packet that arrives. When the sender transmits a packet, it starts a timer and expects acknowledgements from all receivers to arrive before the timer expires. Typically, a sliding window protocol is used to improve throughput. To improve scalability, NAK based protocols [3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15] delegate the responsibility of detection of losses to the receivers. The receivers monitor the sequence of packets they receive from the sender and send a negative acknowledgement (NAK) on detection of a gap in the sequence numbers. In a purely NAK based protocol with a finite send buffer, it is ....

J. Crowcroft, K. Paliwoda, "A Multicast Transport Protocol," in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '88, 1988

....a general issue for many to many virtual circuits and is of value even where fully reliable transmission is not required. There is a substantial literature on providing reliable multicast mechanisms in networks. One of the earliest contributions was [3] Some selected recent contributions include [1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]. Much of the more recent work is directed toward multicast in the context of the internet protocol suite and shifts much of the responsibility for recovering lost data onto the receivers. The recent paper by Floyd, Jacobson, et al. 6] is a good example of receiver based recovery. They also ....

Crowcroft, J. and K. Paliwoda. "A Multicast Transport Protocol," Proceedings ACM SIGCOMM, 1988.

....y Dept. of Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Kwanak ku, Seoul, Korea z ETRI, Daejeon, Korea work resource allocation, teleconferencing and so on. And it will become indispensable with the spread of the distributed systems and the increase in the connectivity of the networks [1]. To insure the reliability of multicasting, it is required that we must confirm whether the receiver nodes have received messages, which the sender node multicasted, without loss. However for each message, if the ACKs from all the receiver nodes are returned, the ACK traffic would overload the ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A multicast transport protocol," ACM SIGCOMM, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 247--256, August 1988.

....the receiver to send positive (ACK) or negative (NACK) acknowledgment packets to indicate reception or loss of data. If the same mechanism is applied to large groups, the sender would soon be flooded by the number of incoming ACK or NACK packets; this is referred to as the ACK implosion problem [7]. Even though many techniques and protocol mechanisms have been proposed to improve the scalability of multicast applications by solving the ACK implosion problem (e.g. 8] 21] 25] the problem of protocol support for large scale multicast applications, especially with a large number of senders, ....

....presents any significant advantages over currently available solutions. 2 Control Topologies for Multicast Groups In recent years, many protocol mechanisms have been proposed to solve the ACK implosion problem mostly in the context of providing a reliable multicast service (e.g. 1] 2] 5] 6][7][9] 10] 11] 13] 14] 16] 17] 18] 22] 23] 24] 29] 30] 31] 32] 33] In packet switching networks, we find two main approaches to limit the volume of control information which causes ACK implosion. In one approach, control information is broadcast to all or a subgroup of multicast group members, and ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda. A Multicast Transport Protocol. In Proc. ACM Sigcomm '88, pages 247-256, August 1988.

....the efficiency of the data delivery, typically measured by the ARQ protocol s throughput. ARQ protocols are typically at the heart of reliable transport protocols such as TCP [10] Point to multipoint ARQ protocols are also components of many reliable multicast transport protocols (see for example [11]) A feature common to all point to multipoint ARQ protocols is that a message is not considered to have been received correctly, unless the transmitter has collected acknowledgments from all destinations 1 . It is this requirement that makes for potential inefficiencies in the operation of ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A multicast transport protocol," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 247-256, 1988.

....8.7 Related work One of the first and most important works on reliable multicast is [5] It is a centralized, reliable, totally ordered multicast protocol. 28] is an enhanced version of [5] Implosion control is not addressed in the above protocols, or in many other multicast protocols [1, 4, 8, 18]. The first protocol to address implosion was XTP [26] with algorithms and heuristics known as the bucket al..gorithm, damping and slotting. These methods work only on many to many communication. A solution for one to many communication with small messages is presented in [9] The solution is based ....

Crowcroft, J., Paliwoda, K., "A Multicast Transport Protocol," Proc. ACM Sigcomm `88, 1988.

....RMcell RTTs for a given multicast tree. Index Terms ATM, ABR, flow control, multicast, scalability, feedback consolidation, feedback soft synchronization, feedback delay. I. INTRODUCTION In multicast ABR, simultaneous congestion feedback from all branches can cause a feedback implosion [2] at the source, especially when the multicast tree is large. Hence, it is important to consolidate the congestion feedback at each branch point and only the consolidated feedback is sent upstream. Consolidation requires synchronization of feedback from all downstream branches, because different ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A multicast transport protocol," in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 247--256, August 1988.

....higher throughput [53] Nevertheless, even negative acknowledgement is irrelevant for multicasting. A packet lost near the source in the multicast tree is a loss seen by many receivers and triggers an avalanche of negative acknowledgements back to the source. This is the source implosion problem [15]. Either the input buffers of the source will be overfulled and acknowledgements are discarded so the error control algorithm fails in its goals, or the source spends too many time to treat acknowledgements and response time gets greater and greater. When the number of receivers is small, the ....

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....of a given packet. 62 There are many important issues concerning multicast what the nature of the tree is (source rooted [27] centered [2] how the tree is formed, scaling, managing resources, distributing addresses, controlling group membership, achieving reliable packet delivery, and so on [8, 26, 90, 112, 2]. In keeping with the scope of this thesis, however, the discussion here is largely limited to the form of the multicast address and related information required in the packet header. A fundamental distinction among tree types is source rooted trees versus non source rooted trees. Source rooted ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda. A Multicast Transport Protocol. Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 88, pages 247--256, August 1988.

....video on demand service, using multicast facility only one stream is opened to serve several users who ask to play the same movie at the same time. reduces the network bandwidth. Intensive research on multicasting issues have been published in the literature [Deering 89, Armstrong 92, Brauds 93, Crowcroft 88] The proposals differ mainly in terms of cost, e.g. total bandwidth consumption, scalability, e.g. scalable to large groups, efficiently, robustness and reliability and ordering. The usage of one protocol or another depends on the application requirements: for delay sensitive applications, such ....

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....to send positive or negative acknowledgment packets (ACKs and NACKs) to the sender to indicate reception or loss of data. If the same mechanisms are applied to large groups, the sender would soon be flooded by the number of incoming ACK or NACK packets; this is referred to as ACK Implosion [6, 13]. In recent years, many techniques and protocol mechanisms have been proposed to cope with the amount of control information that is exchanged between members of a multicast group [2, 5, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 28, 24, 25, 29] mostly in the context of providing a reliable multicast ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda. A Multicast Transport Protocol. In Proc. ACM Sigcomm '88, pages 247--256, August 1988.

....file transfers. IP multicast only provides a datagram service best effort packet delivery. It does not guarantee that packets sent will be received, nor does it ensure that packets will arrive in the order they were sent. Many reliable multicast protocols have been built on top of multicast [BIR91, CHA84, CRO88, FLO95, GEM97, HOL95, KER98, PAU97, RAM87, TAL95, WHE95, YAV95]. Scalability was not a primary concern for most of these protocols, hence they are not useful for the midnight madness problem. The primary barrier to scalability of these protocols is feedback from the receivers to senders in the form of acknowledgements (ACKs) or negative acknowledgements ....

Crowcroft, J., and Paliwoda, K., A Multicast Transport Protocol, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '88, pp.247 - 256, 1988.

....a reliable multicast protocol that can handle hundreds or thousands of participants 1 . In such an environment, traditional error recovery schemes based on positive acknowledgments (ACKs) and timeouts at the sender, will lead to what has come to be described as the ACK implosion problem [20, 21]. On receiving an ACK, the sender would have to reset a timer and perform some amount of processing to keep track of which receiver has acknowledged which piece of data. A single sender that communicates with multiple receivers will quickly be overwhelmed by the ACK processing overhead 1 A recent ....

Crowcroft, J., and Paliwoda, K., "A Multicast Transport Protocol", Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '88, pp. 247--256, Stanford, August 1988.

....than Go BACK N (GBN) In [ARMS92] retransmissions are always multicast. In [ARMS92] a token passing scheme is used for transmission whereby only one host may transmit at a given time. This is not practical for applications such as videoconferencing, where all hosts need to transmit simultaneously. [CrPa88] has a feature where a list of those hosts required to acknowledge packets is sent in the multicast packet. In both [BRAU93] and [CrPa88] the authors propose a threshold based scheme for retransmissions in order to achieve a compromise between unicast (which is time consuming and reduces source ....

....only one host may transmit at a given time. This is not practical for applications such as videoconferencing, where all hosts need to transmit simultaneously. CrPa88] has a feature where a list of those hosts required to acknowledge packets is sent in the multicast packet. In both [BRAU93] and [CrPa88], the authors propose a threshold based scheme for retransmissions in order to achieve a compromise between unicast (which is time consuming and reduces source throughput) and multicast (which unnecessarily increases load on those networks with no packet loss) The threshold is based on the number ....

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....in a reduction of throughput and wastage of bandwidth. A third possibility, which is most often used [1, 3, 14] is to multicast the lost packet to the entire group of receivers. This is the simplest strategy and will perform best if more than a certain number of receivers do not receive a packet [7]. 2.1 Protocol description The protocol that we have chosen to study reflects the observations made above. We next describe a generic protocol which will be used as a platform for the analysis in the rest of the paper. We would like to emphasize that this is not meant to be a new protocol but ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda. A Multicast Transport Protocol. In Proceeding of ACM SIGCOMM, pages 247--256, 1988.

....of these problems dictates that we design a multicast transport mechanism that can satisfy these QOS requirements at each receiver even when the dissemination involves delivering information to hundreds of hosts. Conventional multicast transport protocols typically assume a LAN based environment [3, 7, 6, 2] and achieve reliability using a window based flow control and the retransmissions with timeout paradigm. The sender maintains a flow control window, transmits a window full of data, and then waits for acknowledgments from recipients before sending any new data. The sender retransmits data in case ....

Crowcroft, J., and Paliwoda, K. A Multicast Transport Protocol. In Proccedings of ACM SIGCOMM '88 (August 1988), pp. 247--256.

....of the authors and should not be construed as an official Department of Defense position, policy, or decision. MTP: An Atomic Multicast Transport Protocol 2 take time, thereby slowing the delivery of the data. Hence, most multicast protocols concentrate on a smaller set of goals; for example, [CP88] and [CW89] concentrate on fast delivery while [KTHB90] concentrates on the fast ordered delivery of relatively small messages. MTP, the transport described in this paper, attempts to satisfy both of these goals. MTP is a full duplex, flow controlled, reliable multicast protocol in which the data ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda. A multicast transport protocol. In Proceedings of SIGCOMM '88, pages 247--256. ACM, August 1988.

....problems in getting feedback from the receivers. It is important to get timely notification of congestion, but if the congestion is close to the source then all receivers will detect the congestion and will send a notification to the source generating an implosion of messages at the source [133,134]. For this reason, a control mechanism such as that described in Chapter 5 is not possible. Instead, we require a mechanism for soliciting feedback information in a scalable way from the receivers. Given this feedback information, it is important to relate the state to the entire group of ....

....network state. 6.3. 1 Avoiding implosion Soliciting information from receivers in a multicast group of indeterminate size might create a so called implosion problem, in which a potentially large amount of feedback information is sent almost synchronously from the receivers back to the source [133]. Solutions to this problem have included probabilistic querying, randomly delayed responses, and an expanding scoped search [134] In a probabilistic scheme, a receiver responds to the request from a source with a given probability. Typically, the request is sent again by the source after some ....

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....video on demand service, using multicast facility only one stream is opened to serve several users who ask to play the same movie at the same time. reduces the network bandwidth. Intensive research on multicasting issues have been published in the literature [Deering 89, Armstrong 92, Brauds 93, Crowcroft 88] The proposals differ mainly in terms of cost, e.g. total bandwidth consumption, scalability, e.g. scalable to large groups, efficiently, robustness and reliability and ordering. The usage of one protocol or another depends on the application requirements: for delay sensitive applications, such ....

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....1 Introduction The working principles behind reliable sender initiated ( 1] one to one (unicast) protocols, such as TCP ( 2] are wellknown. Extending them for one to many (multicast) communication brings scaleability problems, in particular that of implosion. The ack implosion problem ( 3] [4]) is an acute shortage of resources caused by the volume and synchrony of acknowledgements, leading to packet losses and increase in network cost and latency. One solution is to use the receiver initiated approach. Protocols which take this approach, such as the Scaleable Reliable Multicast, or ....

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....(pt to mpt or multicast) connections. Supporting abr pt to mpt connection service poses a number of new challenges not encountered in providing abr service on unicast connections. One of the major problems, especially in large multicast trees, is commonly known as the feedback implosion problem [1]. Since our goal is to adjust the source transmission rate to match the bottleneck link bandwidth, the source need to collect congestion feedback from all branches in the multicast tree. Simultaneous congestion feedback from all branches can cause an implosion at the source, especially when the ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A multicast transport protocol," in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 247--256, August 1988.

....on the role of end systems are motivated by our desire to provide the highest possible performance and the lowest possible latency. There is a substantial literature on providing reliable multicast mechanisms in networks. One of the earliest contributions was [4] More recent contributions include [1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 9, 11, 12, 13]. Much of this more work is directed toward multicast in the context of the internet protocol suite and shifts much of the responsibility for recovering lost data onto the receivers. The recent paper by Floyd, Jacobson, et al. 7] is a good example of the receiverbased recovery. This paper also ....

Crowcroft, J. and K. Paliwoda. "A Multicast Transport Protocol," Proceedings ACM SIGCOMM, 1988.

.... of the various QoS parameters which are of interest for multicast communication can be found in [MiKe95] Several multicast transport protocols have been proposed in literature, but none of them has been a break through with respect to a large scale deployment (see e.g. ChMa84] Che86] BST91] [CrPa88], XTP92] WKM94] Our investigations concentrate on a protocol that has been defined for the Internet community. It is therefore particularly well suited to run with the already widespread IP multicast protocol. The protocol is MTP (multicast transport protocol) defined in RFC 1301 [AFM92] ....

J. Crowcroft, K. Paliwoda: "A Multicast Transport Protocol", Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 88, August 1988, pp. 343-352

....minimize RMcell RTTs for a given multicast tree. Index Terms ATM, ABR, flow control, multicast, scalability, feedback consolidation, feedback soft synchronization, feedback delay. I. INTRODUCTION In multicast ABR, simultaneous congestion feedback from all branches can cause a feedback implosion [2] at the source, especially when the multicast tree is large. Hence, it is important to consolidate the congestion feedback at each branch point and only the consolidated feedback is sent upstream. Consolidation requires synchronization of feedback from all downstream branches, because different ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda, "A multicast transport protocol," in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 247--256, August 1988.

....works fine when only two hosts are involved, but unfortunately it does not scale to a large number of receivers as the number of acknowledgments sent back to the original sender would increase linearly with the number of receivers. This is called the ACK implosion or feedback implosion problem [2]. A very simple solution would be to let each member of the session just send one packet (a negative acknowledgment NACK) to the original sender each time a packet was lost instead of one ACK per data segment received. Unfortunately, once again if the group is large and the packet was lost near ....

....ACK per data segment received. Unfortunately, once again if the group is large and the packet was lost near the original sender, this would result in a large number of packets being sent almost simultaneously to the original sender. This is called the NACK implosion or feedback implosion problem [2] and is very similar to the ACK implosion, only that it does not happen as often. A more advanced solution to this problem was proposed in the SRM [4] framework where every member of the session helps out with repairing lost traffic. The SRM framework consists of: 1. each NACK is sent to the whole ....

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....problems in getting feedback from the receivers. It is important to get timely notification of congestion, but if the congestion is close to the source then all receivers will detect the congestion and will send a notification to the source generating an implosion of messages at the source [8, 31]. To prevent this, we require a mechanism for soliciting feedback information in a scalable way from the receivers. Given this feedback information, it is important to relate the state to the entire group of receivers within the context of the application. If only a single receiver is suffering ....

....network state. 3. 1 Avoiding implosion Soliciting information from receivers in a multicast group of indeterminate size might create a so called implosion problem, in which a potentially large amount of feedback information is sent almost synchronously from the receivers back to the source [8]. Solutions to this problem have included probabilistic querying, randomly delayed responses, and an expanding scoped search [31] In a probabilistic scheme, a receiver responds to the request from a source with a given probability. Typically, the request is sent again by the source after some ....

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....packets. In multicast protocols, an ARQ protocol will flood the sender (or some network link en route) with control information when the number of receivers grows large. This problem of overrunning the sender in a multicast group with control information is referred to as the Implosion Problem [DAN89, CRO88, JON91]. To avoid implosion, the influx of control information to the sender of a multicast group must be strictly limited. Since the time needed to recover missing data is correlated to the rate at which receiver can send control information indicating the missing data, a scalable reliable multicast ....

Crowcroft, J., and Paliwoda, K., "A Multicast Transport Protocol", Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '88, Pages 247 - 256, 1988.

....only of those members in V m , G , messages from m to G are targeted at only those members. Using a view identification method, members in a group accept a message only if they belong to the view being addressed. For instance, with the availability of group views, a multicast transport protocol [6,2] may proceed as follows. A source attempts to transfer multicast messages reliably to the set of members in its current view. It either succeeds in transferring the messages to each member in the view or it obtains a new view. If the view has changed, it repeats the same process with the new view. ....

....environment in which the corresponding multicast protocol operates. For instance, the protocol given in [7] assumes a broadcast environment and the protocol developed in [3] does not tolerate the partitioning of the network. Similarly, of the few multicast transport schemes that have been proposed [6,11,12,13,14], none consider the group membership management in wide area networks in any detail. Recently, some work has begun to appear concerning this issue in detail [15,16] In [15] the authors consider a protocol that maintains membership information at each member in the presence of topological and ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda "A Multicast Transport Protocol," Proc. ACM SIGCOMM '88, pp 247-256, August, 1988.

....control and total ordering of messages. This causes over dependency on the master, which limits both reliability and performance. MTP also relies exclusively on NACKs for error recovery, which limits reliability and requires extreme amounts of buffer space. The protocol by Crowcroft and Paliwoda [9] is one of the first protocols to propose reliable multicast over an internetwork which supports hardware multicast. The protocol provides different levels of reliability guarantees, and uses positive acknowledgments from all destinations for reliability. The paper analyzes the flooding problems ....

J. Crowcroft and K. Paliwoda. A multicast transport protocol. In ACM SIGCOMM '88, pages 247--256, 1988.

....Namely, IP multicast only provides a datagram service or best effort delivery. It does not guarantee that packets sent will be received, nor does it ensure packets will arrive in the order they are sent. A number of efforts have been undertaken to provide reliability on top of IP multicast [BIR91, CHA84, CRO88, FLO95, HOL95, MON94, PAU97, TAL95, WHE95, YAV95]. Because the semantics of reliable group communication vary on an application basis, there is no single reliable multicast protocol that can best meets the needs of all applications. For instance, if a file is part of an interactive session, then timeliness and a high degree of in order delivery ....

Crowcroft, J., and Paliwoda, K., A Multicast Transport Protocol, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '88, Pages 247 - 256, 1988.

....(or which) receivers are missing packets. It is not a good idea to use a positive acknowledgement plus timeout retransmission scheme for multicast applications because of the well known implosion problem (congestive collapse caused by multiple acknowledgements returning to the sender or senders)[13]. ffl Scalable reliable multicast[4] is a technique that has seen wide deployment in LBL s whiteboard application (the so called wb ) Wb uses the principles above to provide a reliable delivery. The protocol and repair algorithm are briefly as follows (paraphrased from[14] Messages are sent ....

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