INTERNET MULTICAST CONGESTION CONTROL
Önal, Kerem
M.S., Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Cüneyt F. Bazlamaçcı
February 2004, 72 pages
Congestion control is among the fundamental problems of Internet multicast. It is an active research area with many challenges. In this study, an introduction to Internet congestion control and a brief literature survey of current multicast congestion control protocols is presented. Then two recently proposed “single-rate, end-to-end, rate based” class of protocols, namely LESBCC and TFMCC are evaluated with respect to their intersession fairness (TCP-friendliness), smoothness and responsiveness criteria. Throughout the experiments, which are conducted using a widely accepted network simulation tool ‘ns’, different topologies have been employed.
Keywords: Multicast, Congestion Control, Simulation, LESBCC, TFMCC