A low latency, loss tolerant architecture and protocol for wide area group communication

Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 327-336

  Amir, Yair ^a   Danilov, Claudiu ^a   Stanton, Jonathan ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Group communication; Overlay networks; Reliable multicast; TCP IP; Wide area networks

Indexed keywords

OVERLAY NETWORKS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIDER AREA GROUP COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MULTICASTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0034590176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSN.2000.857557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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