The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP)
draft-macker-rmt-mdp-00
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| Author | Joseph P. Macker | ||
| Last updated | 1999-10-27 | ||
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| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) is a protocol framework designed to provide reliable multicast data and file delivery ser- vices on top of the generic UDP/IP multicast transport [1]. MDP is well suited for reliable multicast bulk transfer of data across a heterogeneous internetwork. Further enhancements made to the pro- tocol are suitable for a range of network environments, including wireless internetwork environments. At its core, MDP is an effi- cient negative acknowledgement (NACK) based reliable multicast pro- tocol that leverages erasure-based coding in ways to improve pro- tocol efficiency and robustness. MDP also includes an optional adaptive end-to-end rate-based congestion control mode that is to operate with competing flows (e.g., TCP sessions or other conges- tion aware flows). This document describes the protocol messages, building blocks, general operation, and optional modes of the pre- sent MDP instantiation and implementation.
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