Wave and Equation Based Rate Control (WEBRC) Building Block

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Experimental
Pages: 32
Abstract: This document specifies Wave and Equation Based Rate Control (WEBRC), which provides rate and congestion control for data delivery. WEBRC is specifically designed to support protocols using IP multicast. It provides multiple-rate, congestion-controlled delivery to receivers, i.e., different receivers joined to the same session may be receiving packets at different rates depending on the bandwidths of their individual connections to the sender and on competing traffic along these connections. WEBRC requires no feedback from receivers to the sender, i.e., it is a completely receiver-driven congestion control protocol. Thus, it is designed to scale to potentially massive numbers of receivers attached to a session from a single sender. Furthermore, because each individual receiver adjusts to the available bandwidth between the sender and that receiver, there is the potential to deliver data to each individual receiver at the fastest possible rate for that receiver, even in a highly heterogeneous network architecture, using a single sender. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Status Note: Experimental
DOI: 10.17487/RFC3738
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC3738
Author(s): Michael Luby
Vivek Goyal
Keyword(s): WEBRC, Wave and Equation Based Rate Control, Congestion Control, Multicast, IP

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Goyal, V., "On WEBRC Wave Design and Server Implementation", Digital Fountain Technical Report no. DF2002-09-001, September 2002, available at http://www.digitalfountain.com/technology/ . EXTERNAL
Byers, J., Horn, G., Luby, M., Mitzenmacher, M. and W. Shaver. "FLID-DL: Congestion control for layered multicast," IEEE J. on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Network Support for Multicast Communication, Vol. 20, No. 8, October 2002, pp. 1558-1570. EXTERNAL
Vicisano, L., Rizzo, L. and J. Crowcroft, "TCP-like Congestion Control for Layered Multicast Data Transfer", Proc. IEEE Infocom '98, San Francisco, CA, March-April 1998, pp. 996-1003. EXTERNAL
Luby, M. and V. Goyal, "Wave and Equation Based Rate Control Using Multicast Round Trip Time: Extended Report", Digital Fountain Technical Report no. DF2002-07-001, September 2002, available at http://www.digitalfountain.com/technology/ . EXTERNAL
Luby, M., Goyal, V., Skaria, S. and G. Horn, "Wave and Equation Based Rate Control Using Multicast Round Trip Time", Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2002, pp. 191-214. EXTERNAL
Perrig, A., Canetti, R., Song, D. and J. Tygar, "Efficient and Secure Source Authentication for Multicast", Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2001, pp. 35-46, February 2001. EXTERNAL
Holbrook, H., "A Channel Model for Multicast", Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science, Stanford, California, August 2001. EXTERNAL
Dagum, P., Karp, R., Luby, M. and S. Ross, "An optimal algorithm for Monte Carlo estimation," SIAM J. Comput., 29(5):1484-1496, April 2000. EXTERNAL
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