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Binomial Congestion Control At Receivers for Multicast (BARM)
draft-zhang-barm-congestion-02

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Bing Zhang , Zengji Liu
Last updated 2006-01-24
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Abstract

This document specifies Binomial congestion control At Receivers for Multicast (BARM). BARM is a single rate multicast congestion control protocol for streaming media applications in the best effort Internet environment. Combining aspects of window-based and rate-based congestion control, the protocol shifts most of the congestion control mechanisms to multicast receivers. A congestion window is maintained and updated by each receiver independently according to TCP-friendly binomial algorithm, and is converted to the expected sending rate which is then fed back to the sender if permitted. To suppress feedback implosion, a representative receiver is selected among receivers and a distributed suppression mechanism is used. BARM has good TCP-friendliness, smoothness, scalability, and acceptable responsiveness.

Authors

Bing Zhang
Zengji Liu

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