FLID-DL

Abstract--We describe fair layered increase/decrease with dynamic layering (FLID-DL): a new multirate congestion control algorithm for layered multicast sessions. FLID-DL generalizes the receiver-driven layered congestion control protocol (RLC) introduced by Vicisano et al. ameliorating the problems associated with large Internet group management protocol (IGMP) leave latencies and abrupt rate increases. Like RLC, FLID-DL is a scalable, receiver-driven congestion control mechanism in which receivers add layers at sender-initiated synchronization points and leave layers when they experience congestion. FLID-DL congestion control coexists with transmission control protocol (TCP) flows as well as other FLID-DL sessions and supports general rates on the different multicast layers. We demonstrate via simulations that our congestion control scheme exhibits better fairness properties and provides better throughput than previous methods. A key contribution that enables FLID-DL and may be usefu...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: NGC
• Authors: John W. Byers, Michael Frumin, Gavin B. Horn, Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher, Alex Roetter, William Shaver
• Keywords: Communications, Congestion Control, Congestion Control Algorithm, Layered Congestion Control, NGC 2000