A comparison of sender-initiated and receiver-initiated reliable multicast protocols

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 398-406

  Pingali, Sridhar ^a   Towsley, Don ^b   Kurose, James F ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

ARQ; Multicast; Selective repeat

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ERROR CORRECTION; ERROR DETECTION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST (ARQ); MULTICAST ERROR CONTROL PROTOCOLS; NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (NAK);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0031120634     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.564137     Document Type: Review

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