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IETF RFC 5740
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NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Transport Protocol

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Publisher
IETF
Doc Type
Standard
Pages
96
Abstract
This document describes the messages and procedures of the Negative- ACKnowledgment (NACK) Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) protocol. This protocol can provide end-to-end reliable transport of bulk data objects or streams over generic IP multicast routing and forwarding services. NORM uses a selective, negative acknowledgment mechanism for transport reliability and offers additional protocol mechanisms to allow for operation with minimal a priori coordination among senders and receivers. A congestion control scheme is specified to allow the NORM protocol to fairly share available network bandwidth with other transport protocols such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). It is capable of operating with both reciprocal multicast routing among senders and receivers and with asymmetric connectivity (possibly a unicast return path) between the senders and receivers. The protocol offers a number of features to allow different types of applications or possibly other higher-level transport protocols to utilize its service in different ways. The protocol leverages the use of FEC-based (forward error correction) repair and other IETF Reliable Multicast Transport (RMT) building blocks in its design. This document obsoletes RFC 3940. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Publication Date
2009-11-01
Status Note
Proposed Standard
DOI
10.17487/RFC5740
Link
https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5740
Author(s)
Brian Adamson
Carsten Bormann
Mark J. Handley
Joseph P. Macker
Keyword(s)
Multicast, Reliable Multicast, Transport, Forward Error Correction, Packet Erasure Coding
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Bibliographic Reference(s)

  • Nonnenmacher, J. and E. Biersack, "Optimal Multicast Feedback", IEEE INFOCOM, p. 964, March/April 1998. EXTERNAL
  • Gossink, D. and J. Macker, "Reliable Multicast and Integrated Parity Retransmission with Channel Estimation", IEEE GLOBECOMM, 1998. EXTERNAL
  • Widmer, J. and M. Handley, "Extending Equation-Based Congestion Control to Multicast Applications", ACM SIGCOMM, August 2001. EXTERNAL
  • Padhye, J., Firoiu, V., Towsley, D., and J. Kurose, "Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation", ACM SIGCOMM, 1998. EXTERNAL
  • Adamson, B. and J. Macker, "A TCP-Friendly, Rate- based Mechanism for NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast Congestion Control", Proc. IEEE GLOBECOMM, November 2001. EXTERNAL
  • Rizzo, L., "pgmcc: A TCP-Friendly Single-Rate Multicast Congestion Control Scheme", ACM SIGCOMM, August 2000. EXTERNAL
  • Adamson, B. and J. Macker, "Quantitative Prediction of NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Feedback", IEEE MILCOM, October 2002. EXTERNAL
  • Pingali, S., Towsley, D., and J. Kurose, "A Comparison of Sender-Initiated and Receiver- Initiated Reliable Multicast Protocols", Proc. INFOCOMM, San Francisco CA, October 1993. EXTERNAL
  • Macker, J. and B. Adamson, "The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) Toolkit", Proc. IEEE MILCOM, October 1999. EXTERNAL
  • IETF RFC 2357 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 2974 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 3048 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 3269 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 3453 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 3547 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 3550 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 3711 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 3830 [Active*]
  • RFC3940 — RFC3940 EXTERNAL
  • IETF RFC 4535 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 4566 [Superseded*]
  • RFC5445 — RFC5445 EXTERNAL
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