Study of multicast communications in wide-area networks

• Main Author: Lim, Lip Poh.
• Other Authors: Ng, Chee Hock
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Computer hardware, software and systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/4680
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this thesis, we present an efficient end-to-end NACK suppression algorithm that can solve the problem caused by correlative packet loss and independant packet loss among receivers. It combines representatives with timers to suppress NACKs.