Performance analysis of reliable multicast protocols

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Elektrik ve Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2004

Öğrenci: COŞKUN ÇELİK

Danışman: CÜNEYT FEHMİ BAZLAMAÇCI

Özet:

IP multicasting is a method for transmitting the same information to multiple receivers over IP networks. Reliability issue of multicasting contains the challenges for detection and recovery of packet losses and ordered delivery of the entire data. In this work, existing reliable multicast protocols are classified into three main groups, namely tree based, NACK-only and router assisted, and a representative protocol for each group is selected to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of the corresponding approaches. The selected protocols are SRM, PGM and RMTP. Performance characteristics of these protocols are empirically evaluated by using simulation results. Network Simulator-2 (ns2), a discrete event simulator is used for the implementation and simulation of the selected protocols. The contributions of the thesis are twofold, i.e. the extension of the ns library with an open source implementation of RMTP which did not exist earlier and the evaluation of the selected protocols by investigating performance metrics like distribution delay and recovery latency with respect to varying multicast group size, network diameter, link loss rate, etc.