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What is Single-Rate Protocol

Chapter 16
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
A congestion control protocol that delivers the same flow of data to all receivers simultaneously.
Published in Chapter:
Congestion Control in Multicast Networks
Miguel Rodríguez Pérez (Universidade de Vigo, Spain), Cándidol López-García (Universidade de Vigo, Spain), and Sergio Herrería-Alonso (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch016
Abstract
Multicast is a transmission service that simultaneously delivers packets from a sender to a group of receivers. The set of receivers form a multicast group logically identi?ed by a unique multicast address. In a network with network level multicast support (e.g. IP) a copy of each packet is transmitted once on each link of a directed tree rooted at the sender with the receivers as leaves. In the public Internet, IP Multicast in an extension to the basic routing and forwarding model, endowed with its own address space, signaling (IGMP), and routing protocols (MOSPF, DVMRP, PIM).
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