Summary: Application­Layer Group Communication Server
for Extending Reliable Multicast Protocols Services \Lambda
Ehab Al­Shaer Hussein Abdel­Wahab
Department of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529­0162
email: (ehab, wahab, maly)@cs.odu.edu
Kurt Maly
This paper appeared in the IEEE International Confer­
ence on Network Protocols, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, Oct.
1997.
Abstract
Reliable multicast protocols are becoming an essential
element in distributed applications such as interactive dis­
tance learning applications. However, the existing imple­
mentations of reliable multicast protocols are not sufficient
to satisfy the group communications requirements of some
distributed applications. Our experience of using number
of multicast protocols in IRI distance learning applications
shows the necessity of providing an application­layer Reli­

Source: Al-Shaer, Ehab - School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems, DePaul University

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