Summary: Inter­Receiver Fair Multicast Communication Over the
Internet \Lambda
Tianji Jiang Ellen W. Zegura Mostafa Ammar
Networking and Telecommunications Group
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332­0280
ftjiang,ewz,ammarg@cc.gatech.edu
Abstract
Multicast protocols target applications involving a large
number of receivers with heterogeneous data reception ca­
pabilities. To accommodate heterogeneity, the sender may
transmit at multiple rates, requiring mechanisms to de­
termine the rates and allocate receivers to rates. In this
paper, we develop a protocol to control the rates of a multi­
cast session, with the goal of maximizing the inter­receiver
fairness, an intra­session measure that captures the col­
lective ``satisfaction'' of the session receivers. Our target
environment is the Internet, where fair sharing of band­
width must be achieved via end­system mechanisms and

Source: Ammar, Mostafa - College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Zegura, Ellen W. - College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences