Parity-based loss recovery for reliable multicast transmission

Nonnenmacher, Jörg; Biersack, Ernst W
SIGCOMM 1997, ACM conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication, September 14-18, 1997, Cannes, France

We investigate how FEC (Forward Error Correction) can be combined with ARQ (Automatic Repeat Request) to achieve scalable reliable multicast transmission. We consider the two scenarios where FEC is introduced as a transparent layer underneath a reliable multicast layer that uses ARQ, and where FEC and ARQ are both integrated into a single layer that uses the retransmission of parity data to recover from the loss of original data packets. To evaluate the performance improvements a single layer that uses the retransmission of parity dataue to FEC, we consider different types of loss behaviors (spatially or temporally correlated loss, homogeneous or heterogeneous loss) and loss rates for up to 106 receivers. Our resultsshow that introducing FEC as a layer below ARQ can improve multicast transmission efficiency and scalability and that there are substantial additional improvements when the two are integrated.


DOI
Type:
Conference
City:
Cannes
Date:
1997-09-14
Department:
Digital Security
Eurecom Ref:
103
Copyright:
© ACM, 1997. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in SIGCOMM 1997, ACM conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication, September 14-18, 1997, Cannes, France http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/263105.263181
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