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Reliable multicast transport protocol (RMTP)
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In this paper we focus on reliable multicast services. We present our work concerning the integration of RMTP in the network simulator NS. The resulting model allows us to simulate the performance of RMTP-based reliable multicast services. The simulation results of eight different scenarios presented in this paper show the poor performance of RMTP when used to multicast data to receivers in "heterogeneous" environments. Another question that we address in this paper is the scalability limitation of RMTP in spite of its hierarchical design. This limitation is due to several reasons like the use of the hierarchical acknowledgments (HACKS), the unlimited number of receivers that can be associated to a designated receiver, and the buffering space required in the sender and in the DRs when some or many receivers experience high loss rates. We discuss as well the challenges that face the integration of RMTP in current networks and its future coexistence with other multicast as well as unicast protocols.