%0 Journal Article 
%A Manzanares López, Pilar
%A Sánchez Aarnoutse, Juan Carlos Jacobo
%A Malgosa Sanahuja, José María
%A García Haro, Juan
%T A multicast transport protocol design methodology: analysis, implementation and performance evaluation
%D 2006
%@ 1796-2021
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10317/665
%X In this paper, we propose and analyze a multicast
application called SOMA (SynchrOnous Multicast Application)
which offers multicast file transfer service in an asymmetric
intra-campus environment (several interconnected
wired and wireless LAN networks interconnected through
few routers).
For efficient bandwidth utilization, SOMA transmits IP
packets by using multicast addressing. We also propose a
complete multicast transport protocol involving both, the
flow and error correction algorithms. The protocol adapts
the window size and the overall application transfer bitrate
to the minimum network capacity, allowing synchronism
and reacting quickly when congestion arises at any network
router.
The application behavior has been tested by simulation in
a mixture of wired and wireless intra-campus networks, and
intensively studied by experimentation in an intra-campus
environment composed of a wired Fast Ethernet and a
wireless 802.11b Ethernet connected through an Access
Point router. In addition, we develop a mathematical
model to validate analytically the most important protocol
parameters. The methodology employed to define, analyze
and evaluate this multicast protocol is, indeed, another
contribution of the work and can be easily extended to
other multicast protocols.
%K Ingeniería Telemática
%K Multicast
%K Control de flujo y congestión
%K Protocolo de transporte
%~ GOEDOC, SUB GOETTINGEN