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Reliable sender-based one-to-many protocols do not scale well due mainly to implosion caused by excessive rate of feedback packets arriving from receivers. We show that this problem can be circumvented by making the sender poll the receivers at carefully planned timing instants, so that the arrival rate of feedback packets is not large enough to cause implosion. We describe a generic end-to-end protocol which incorporates this polling mechanism together with error and flow control mechanisms, and an architecture that implements it. We analyse the behaviour of our protocol using simulations which indicate that our scheme can be effective in minimising losses due to implosion. Thus the protocol has all the advantages of sender-based schemes while being scaleable.
Author(s): Barcellos AMP, Ezhilchelvan PD
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 1997
Pages: 25
Print publication date: 01/01/1997
Source Publication Date: 1997
Report Number: 609
Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
