[ns] A new research paper using ns

[Arnaud Legout <Arnaud.Legout@eurecom.fr>]

Hello,
I am pleased to announce you a new research paper using ns:

[LB_patho00] 
 A. Legout, and E. W. Biersack. 
 Pathological Behaviors for RLM and RLC. 
 In Proceedings of NOSSDAV'2000, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June
2000.

Should you add it to the "research using ns" page.
There is a link to the paper at:
http://www.eurecom.fr/~legout/Research/research.html

Regards,
Arnaud.



ABSTRACT:
RLM and RLC are two well
known receiver-driven cumulative layered multicast congestion control
protocols. They both represent an indisputable advance in the area of
congestion control for multimedia applications. However, there are very
few
studies that evaluate these protocols, and most of the time, these
studies conclude t
hat
RLM and RLC perform reasonably well over a broad range of conditions.

In this paper, we evaluate both RLM and RLC and show that they exhibit
fundamental pathological behaviors. We explain in
which context these pathological behaviors happen, why they are harmful,
and why
they are inherent to the protocols themselves and cannot be easily
corrected.
Our aim is to shed some light on
the fundamental problems with these protocols.



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