Inter-receiver fairness: a novel performance measure for multicast ABR sessions
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Achieving bounded fairness for multicast and TCP traffic in the Internet
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Modeling TCP throughput: a simple model and its empirical validation
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
The impact of multicast layering on network fairness
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
pgmcc: a TCP-friendly single-rate multicast congestion control scheme
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Equation-based congestion control for unicast applications
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Bandwidth-allocation policies for unicast and multicast flows
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Advances in Network Simulation
Computer
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Recently, a TCP-friendly, single-rate multicast congestion control scheme called pgmcc was introduced by one of the authors. In this paper, we study the fairness of pgmcc in a variety of scenarios in which a multicast transfer session competes with long-lived TCP flows and web-like traffic. We evaluate fairness of the pgmcc scheme at different timescales and compare it with the fairness of the TCP congestion control algorithm. Our results show that pgmcc is capable of sharing fairly the available bandwidth with competing connections. In particular, the use of a closed control loop between the sender and a group's representative - which closely mimics the TCP congestion control - guarantees that pgmcc is fair to TCP sessions and that it is capable of reacting quickly to changes of network conditions without compromising fairness.