Most approaches to scalable reliable multicast utilize receiver-oriented retransmissions. Defining an API for receiver-oriented reliable multicast is difficult because it is not c...
Efficiency is essential for Video-on-Demand (VOD) to be successful. Conventional VOD servers are inefficient; they dedicate a disk stream for each client, quickly using up all ava...
In this paper, we make a survey of Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)andfind that it is not optimal in the aspect of network cost (NC). Therefore, we propose a mod...
With the advances in server technology, and the advent of fast Gigabit networks, it has become possible to support multi-media applications. To support the requirements for the tr...