Abstract

Multicast is positioned to save bandwidth by reducing redundant data and getting the same information to many locations nearly at the same time. This model of Multicast communication is often called "best effort" and corresponds to what the IP network layer provides. A reliable multicast techniques can be added on top of the above best effort service in order to provide lossless and ordered delivery of data to receiving applications. In this thesis, we study the performance of a new loss control technique for reliable multicast. This technique overcomes the effect of packet loss, delay, and fitter in multicast transmission; the performance of the network is highly improved. Simulation results give the characteristics and functionalities of the potential techniques, including average end-to-end delay, end-to-end throughput and average buffer overflow.