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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