IB - Reliable Multicast Transport protocol

 
Reliability Mechanism
Retransmission is event driven (off-line). Retransmission requests
uses selactive NACKS which are unicast to source.
 
Servers
Servers are stateless, receivers are required to provide state when asking for data.
 
Support
Support for both files and streams for flexibility.
 
Action ACK
A server can ask for an explicit ACK (ACTION ACK) from a receiver, and if it
doesn't get it, it may decide to terminate the tranfer.
 
Other Issues
Decoupling of error and congestion control.

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Last modified: Tue Oct 14 11:10pm 1997
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