A digital fountain approach to reliable distribution of bulk data
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
On multicast flow control for heterogeneous receivers
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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The subject of reliable multicast protocols is a popular research topic today. Many applications exist which can use a reliable multicast protocol to great benefit, and there are many approaches to solving the problems. This paper discusses some of the issues from a pragmatic view and also some of the prospects for improvements now being discussed in the Internet research community. Additionally, actual applications being used commercially are discussed based on StarBurst Communications' two years of experience in shipping reliable multicast products based on its own reliable multicast protocol, MFTP.