Reliable Multicast Links

This list is a continually growing list of reliable multicast and fault-tolerant project/paper/page/etc references. To add information or to request changes, please contact, Todd Montgomery, <tmont@nard.net>. Comments and ideas on organization are highly welcome!

Last update: October 12, 1998.

• IETF Criteria for Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application Protocols (RFC 2357), A. Mankin, A. Romanow, S. Bradner, V. Paxson, June 1998.
• Internet Drafts of interest to Reliable Multicast
  • MTP/SO: Self-Organizing Multicast
  • RMFP: A Reliable Multicast Framing Protocol
  • Selectively Reliable Transport Protocol
  • The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) Framework
  • IETF Criteria For Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application Protocols
  • StarBurst Multicast File Transfer Protocol (MFTP) Specification
  • RTP Extensions for Scaleable Reliable Multicast
  • Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol by NTT & IBM. A page on RMTP is here. Version 2's draft is located here.
  • Alternatives for Enhancing RTP Scalability
  • Timer Reconsideration for Enhanced RTP Scalability
  • New Results in RTP Scalability
  • A Protocol for the Transmission of Net News Articles over IP multicast
  • The Multicast Attribute Framing Protocol
  • IP Extension for Reliable Multicast
  • An RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error Correction
  • Pretty Good Multicast (PGM) Transport Protocol Specification
  • The RMTP-II Protocol
  • The RMTP-II Protocol Appendices
  • MBone Deployment (MBoneD) Issues:
    • Administratively Scoped IP Multicast
    • Introduction to IP Multicast Routing
    • Guidelines for Rate Limits on the MBONE
    • Multicast Debugging Handbook
    • The UDP Multicast Tunneling Protocol
    • IP Multicast and Firewalls
  • RFCs
    • TFTP Multicast Option (RFC 2090)
    • Options for Repair of Streaming Media (RFC 2354)
• Internet Research Task Force on Reliable Multicast
• Multicast Transport Mechanism: A Survey and Taxonomy, Katia Obraczka, ISI, submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine.
• Congestion Control:
  • TCP-Friendly Web Site
  • TCP-like Congestion Control for Layered Multicast Data Transfer, Vicisano L., Rizzo L., Crowcroft J., submitted to INFOCOM 1998, August 1997.
  • A Loss Tolerant Rate Controller for Reliable Multicast, Montgomery T., Technical Report NASA-IVV-97-011, August 1997.
  • Notes on FEC supported Congestion Control for One to Many Reliable Multicast, Brockners F., working draft.
  • Flow and Congestion Control for Bulk Reliable Multicast Protocols - toward coexistence with TCP -, Sano T., Yamanouchi N., et. al., submitted to INFOCOM 1998.
  • T. Turletti, S.F. Parisis, J. Bolot, Experiments with a Layered Transmission Scheme over the Internet, submitted to Infocom'98.
  • B. Braden, et. al., Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet, Internet Draft.
  • Fundamental Observations on Multicast Congestion Control in the Internet, J. Golestani.
  • A Class of End-to-End Congestion Control Algorithms for the Internet, J. Golestani.
  • The Loss Path Multiplicity Problem in Multicast Congestion Control, S. Bhattacharyya, D. Towsley, J. Jurose, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, CMPSCI Technical Report TR 98-76.
  • Multicast Feedback Suppression Using Representatives, Dante DeLucia, Hughes, and Katia Obraczka, ISI, to appear IEEE InfoComm 1997.
  • MTCP: Scalable TCP-like Congestion Control for Reliable Multicast, I. Rhee, N. Ballaguru, G. N. Rouskas, January, 1998, TR-98-01, Department of Computer Science, NCSU.
• MBone Performance and Modelling:
  • An Examination of MBone Performance, Mark Handley, UCL and ISI.
  • M. Yajnik, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, "Packet Loss Correlation in the MBone Multicast Network", Proceedings of IEEE Global Internet Conference, London, Nov. 1996. Available online through Multicast Network Research Group.
  • J. Nonnenmacher and E.W. Biersack, Performance Modelling of Reliable Multicast Transmission, IEEE INFOCOM 1997, April 1997.
  • Impact of Network Dynamics on End-to-End Protocols: Case Studies in TCP and Reliable Multicast,Varadhan, K., Estrin, D., and Floyd, S., submitted to IEEE INFOCOM 1998, August 1997.
  • B.N. Levine and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, A Comparison of Reliable Multicast Protocols, in ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, August 1998.BibTex
  • A Comparison of Reliable Multicast Protocols using the Network Simulator ns-2, C. Hanle, M. Hofmann, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on   Local Computer Networks (LCN), Boston, MA, USA, October 11-14, 1998.
  • Impact of Virtual Group Structure on Multicast Performance, M. Hofmann, M. Rohrmüller,4th International COST 237 Workshop, Lisboa, Portugal,   December 15-19, 1997.
• ISIS and Horus - Cornell University
  • ISIS
  • HORUS
• Xpress Transport Protocol (XTP). The XTP Forum is here.
• Scalable Reliable Multicast (SRM) and Application Level Framing (ALF)
  • SRM (Scaleable Reliable Multicast) Web Page
  • A Reliable Multicast Framework for Light-weight Sessions and Application Level Framing, To appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
  • LRMP: the Light-Weight Reliable Multicast Protocol.
  • Scalable Reliable Multicast Using Multiple Multicast Groups, Kasera, S., Kurose, J. and Towsley, D., CMPSCI Technical Report TR 96-73, October 1996.
  • Generic Scaleable Reliable Multicast (GSRM) Framework
  • Scalable Session Messages in SRM, Sharma, P., Estrin, D., Floyd, S., and Zhang, L., submitted to IEEE INFOCOM 1998, August 1997.
  • Error Recovery in Scalable Reliable Multicast, Ching-Gung Liu, Ph.D. Dissertation.
  • Reliable Multicast Framework
  • Multicast Dissemintation Protocol Version 2
  • A Naming Approach for ALF Design, M. Fuchs, C. Diot, T. Turletti, M. Hofmann,Third International Workshop on High Performance   Protocol Architectures (HIPPARCH), London, England, June 15-16,   1998.
• Tree-based Approaches and ACK Aggregation
  • Lin, John C. and Paul, Sanjoy, RMTP: A Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol, IEEE INFOCOM '96, March 1996, pp. 1414-1424. A page devoted to RMTP is here.
  • B.N. Levine, S. Paul, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Organizing Multicast Receivers Deterministically According to Packet-Loss Correlation, Proc. Sixth ACM International Multimedia Conference (ACM Multimedia 98), Bristol, UK, September 1998.BibTex
  • B.N. Levine, David Lavo, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, The Case for Concurrent Reliable Multicasting Using Shared Ack Trees, Proc. ACM Multimedia 1996, Boston, MA, November 18--22, 1996.BibTex
  • IRMA: Illinois Reliable Multicast Architecture
  • TRAM: A Tree-based Reliable Multicast Protocol, D.M. Chiu, S. Hurst, M Kadansky, J. Wesley, Sun Microsystems Laborities Technical Report Series, TR-98-66.
• Router Modification (including subcasting and randomcasting)
  • Pretty Good Multicast (PGM) Transport Protocol Specification
  • B.N. Levine, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Improving Internet Multicast with Routing Labels, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP-97), October 28 - 31, 1997. p. 241-250. BibTex A new, revised version of the paper is available.
  • An Error Control Scheme for Large-Scale Multicast Applications, Papadopoulos, Parulkar, Varghese, Washington University, St. Louis. INFOCOM '98.
  • Search Party Reliable Multicast Page
  • OTERS (On-Tree Efficient Recovery using Subcasting): A Reliable Multicast Protocol, D. Li and D. R. Cheriton, To appear in 6th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, October 13 - 16, 1998, Austin, Texas. Abstract
• Use of Forward Error Correction (FEC)
  • Jorg Nonnenmacher, E.W. Biersack, Reliable Multicast: Where to use Forward Error Correction, Proc. 5th. Workshop on Protocols for High Speed Networks, pp. 134-148, Sophia Antipolis, France, Oct. 1996.
  • Notes on a cumulative layered organization of data packets across multiple streams with different rates, UCL CS.
  • L. Rizzo, Effective erasure codes for reliable computer communications protocols, DEIT Technical Report LR-970115, Source available.
  • J. Nonnenmacher, E. Biersack, D. Towsley, Parity-Based Loss Recovery for Reliable Multicast Transmission, Technical Report 97-17, Dept. of Computer Science, U. Massachusetts, March 1997.
  • J. Nonnenmacher, M. Lacher, M. Jung, E. Biersack, G. Carle, How bad is Reliable Multicast without Local Recovery?,
  • R. Kermode, "Scoped Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request with Forward Error Correction (SHARQFEC)", To appear in ACM SIGCOMM 98, September 1998, Vancouver, Canada. Paper in PostScript and PDF.
  • FEC Library in Java at University of Massachusetts.
  • Real-Time Reliable Multicast Using Proactive Forward Error Correction, D. Rubenstein, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report 98-19. NOSSDAV '98 Version.
  • Improving Reliable Multicast Using Active Parity Encoding, D. Rubenstein, S. Kasera, D. Towsley, J. Kurose, University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report 98-79.
  • Practical Loss-Resilient Codes, M. Luby, M. Mitzenmacher, A. Shokrollahi, D. Spielman, V. Stemann, 29th STOC, May 1997. (Some theory on Tornado codes. More on them is available at Micheal Luby's page.)
• Multicast Protocol Web Pages:
  • Multicast Transport Protocols
  • MIST - Multicast Implementation STudy
  • MIST Comparisons
  • Reliable Multicast Framework
  • Reliable Multicast Session of the SIGCOMM 96 workshop on Multicast
  • Multicast Network Research Group at UMass.
  • Local Group Concept (LGC)
• Reliability and Scaling Issues in Multicast Communication, Bala Rajagopalan, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '92.
• Resilient Multicast Support for Continuous-Media Applications, Xu, Meyers, Zhang, and Yavatkar, NOSSDAV 1997.
• MESH: Distributed Error Recovery for Multimedia Streams in Wide-Area Multicast Networks, Lucas, Dempsey, Weaver, University of Virginia.
• Network Text Editor (NTE), A Scaleable Shared Text Editor for the MBone, Mark Handley, Jon Crowcroft.
• Network Support for Scaleable Distributed Multiparty Virtual Reality, UCL CS
• B-MART: Bulk-data (non-real-time) Multiparty Adaptive Reliable Transfer Protocol, UCL CS
• AFDP - University of Toronto
• Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Research Laboratory
• Reliable Adaptive Multicast Protocols (RAMP)
• Other Pages/Links/Papers
  • Hugh Holbrook, Sandeep Singhal, David Cheriton."Log-Based Receiver-Reliable Multicast for Distributed Interactive Simulation", ACM SIGCOMM, 1995, pages 328-341.Abstract.
  • Talpade, R., Ammar, M. H., "Single Connection Emulation: An Architecture for Providing a Reliable Multicast Transport Service", In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Intl Conf on Distributed Computing Systems, Vancouver, June 1995.
  • Totem - UCSB
  • Ameoba - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
  • Rampart - AT&T Bell Labs
  • Navigators - INESC, Lisbon
  • Mars - Technical Universiy of Vienna.
  • NewTop/Arjuna - University of Newcastle, UK.
  • Phoenix - EPFL, Lausanne.
  • Relacs - University of Bologna.
  • Team - University of California, San Diego.
  • Transis - Hebrew University.
• Commercial Products:
  • GlobalCast Communications, Reliable Multicast Engine (RME)
  • GlobalCast Communications, Generic Scaleable Reliable Multicast (GSRM) Framework (available through BETA Program)
  • Lucent Technologies, e-cast Reliable Multicast Software
  • TIBCO Rendezvous Software Bus
  • OrbixTalk from IONA
  • StarBurst Communications MFTP