A Reliable Multicast Framework for Light-weight Sessions and Application Level Framing. Floyd, S., Jacobson, V., Liu, C., McCanne, S., & Zhang, L. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 5:784\textendash803, 1997.
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This paper describes SRM (Scalable Reliable Multicast), a reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing. The algorithms of this framework are efficient, robust, and scale well to both very large networks and very large sessions. The SRM framework has been prototyped in wb, a distributed whiteboard application, which has been used on a global scale with sessions ranging from a few to a few hundred participants. The paper describes the principles that have guided the SRM design, including the IP multicast group delivery model, an end-to-end, receiver-based model of reliability, and the application level framing protocol model. As with unicast communications, the performance of a reliable multicast delivery algorithm depends on the underlying topology and operational environment. We investigate that dependence via analysis and simulation, and demonstrate an adaptive algorithm that uses the results of previous loss recovery events to adapt the control parameters used for future loss recovery. With the adaptive algorithm, our reliable multicast delivery algorithm provides good performance over a wide range of underlying topologies.
@article {1997,
	title = {A Reliable Multicast Framework for Light-weight Sessions and Application Level Framing},
	journal = {IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.},
	volume = {5},
	year = {1997},
	pages = {784{\textendash}803},
	abstract = {This paper describes SRM (Scalable Reliable Multicast), a reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing. The algorithms of this framework are efficient, robust, and scale well to both very large networks and very large sessions. The SRM framework has been prototyped in wb, a distributed whiteboard application, which has been used on a global scale with sessions ranging from a few to a few hundred participants. The paper describes the principles that have guided the SRM design, including the IP multicast group delivery model, an end-to-end, receiver-based model of reliability, and the application level framing protocol model. As with unicast communications, the performance of a reliable multicast delivery algorithm depends on the underlying topology and operational environment. We investigate that dependence via analysis and simulation, and demonstrate an adaptive algorithm that uses the results of previous loss recovery events to adapt the control parameters used
for future loss recovery. With the adaptive algorithm, our reliable multicast delivery algorithm provides good performance over a wide range of underlying topologies.},
	keywords = {computer network performance, computer networks, Internetworking},
	issn = {1063-6692},
	doi = {10.1109/90.650139},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/90.650139},
	author = {Floyd, Sally and Jacobson, Van and Liu, Ching-Gung and McCanne, Steven and Zhang, Lixia}
}

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