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Abstract:
This document specifies Wave and Equation Based Rate Control (WEBRC), which
provides rate and congestion control for data delivery. WEBRC is specifically designed to support protocols
using IP multicast. It provides multiple-rate, congestion-controlled delivery to receivers, i.e., different receivers joined to
the same session may be receiving packets at different rates depending on the bandwidths of
their individual connections to the sender and on competing traffic along these connections. WEBRC requires
no feedback from receivers to the sender, i.e., it is a completely receiver-driven congestion control
protocol. Thus, it is designed to scale to potentially massive numbers of receivers attached to
a session from a single sender. Furthermore, because each individual receiver adjusts to the available
bandwidth between the sender and that receiver, there is the potential to deliver data to
each individual receiver at the fastest possible rate for that receiver, even in
a highly heterogeneous network architecture, using a single sender. This memo defines
an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
Authors:
Michael Luby <luby@dsigitalfountain.com>
Vivek Goyal <goyal@isi.edu>
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