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Multicast is the most efficient way to address shared communication between groups of computers for streaming multimedia content. The implementation of multicast has many challenges: multicast routing algorithms, address allocation, congestion control and multi-session management. In this paper, we give an overview of congestion control, especially for the receiver-based multicast transport layered congestion control protocols. This mainly focuses on the different technical backgrounds analysis and performance evaluation for two important protocols: Packet-pair receiver-driven cumulative Layered Multicast (PLM) and Wave and Equation Based Rate Control (WEBRC). From our simulation results, PLM can only be used effectively under a Fair Queuing (FQ) network environment; WEBRC has good performance results, but its complex definition and scheduling algorithm make it hard to be recommended as a global standard for multimedia streaming without further research. And all of the existing protocols have not addressed the support of wireless environment and multi-session management algorithms. Simulation results in this paper are based on the NS-2 simulator.
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Li, Y., Munro, A., Kaleshi, D. (2005). Multi-rate Congestion Control over IP Multicast. In: Lorenz, P., Dini, P. (eds) Networking - ICN 2005. ICN 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3421. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31957-3_115
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