Study of concast service model and its application in reliable multicast protocols

• Main Author: Lai, Yoke Piow
• Other Authors: Ng, Chee Hock
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Computer-communication networks
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/4549
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Concast Service is a new group communication paradigm that enables a receiver to treat an arbitrary number of senders as a single entity. When multiple senders transmit concast datagrams to the receiver, the network makes its best effort to "merge" these datagrams into a single message for...