Analysis of Speeding Multicast by Acknowledgment Reduction Technique (SMART) with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Links - A Method of Types Approach.

摘要

In current data networks there are many applications that support mulitcast from a single source to multiple receivers, such as conferencing, online gaming, and video streaming. Among these are those applications that require reliable multicast, such as reliable bulk data transfer applications that impose strict reliability and a received file is considered invalid even if one bit is received incorrectly. Reliability in multicast networks is achieved through Forward Error Correction (FEC), Automatic Repeat Requests (ARQ), and other feedback mechanisms.