Negative-Acknowledgment (Nack)-Oriented Reliable Multicast (Norm) Building Blocks

By Adamson, B.

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Title:	Negative-Acknowledgment (Nack)-Oriented Reliable Multicast (Norm) Building Blocks
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Excerpt
Introduction: Reliable multicast transport is a desirable technology for the efficient and reliable distribution of data to a group on the Internet. The complexities of group communication paradigms necessitate different protocol types and instantiations to meet the range of performance and scalability requirements of different potential reliable multicast applications and users [3]. This document addresses the creation of negative-acknowledgment (NACK)- oriented reliable multicast (NORM) protocols. While different protocol instantiations may be required to meet specific application and network architecture demands [4], there are a number of fundamental components that may be common to these different instantiations. This document describes the framework and common building block components relevant to multicast protocols based primarily on NACK operation for reliable transport. While this document discusses a large set of reliable multicast components and issues relevant to NORM protocol design, it specifically addresses in detail the following building blocks which are not addressed in other IETF documents...

Table of Contents
Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Rationale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1. Delivery Service Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2. Group Membership Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3. Sender/Receiver Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.4. Group Size Scalability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.5. Data Delivery Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.6. Network Environments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.7. Router/Intermediate System Assistance . . . . . . . . . . 7 3. Functionality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.1. NORM Sender Transmission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.2. NORM Repair Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.2.1. Receiver NACK Process Initiation . . . . . . . . . 11 3.2.2. NACK Suppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.2.3. NACK Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.2.3.1. NACK and FEC Repair Strategies. . . . . . 17 3.2.3.2. NACK Content Format . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.2.4. Sender Repair Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.3. NORM Receiver Join Policies and Procedures. . . . . . . . 23 3.4. Reliable Multicast Member Identification. . . . . . . . . 24 3.5. Data Content Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.6. Forward Error Correction (FEC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3.7. Round-trip Timing Collection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3.7.1. One-to-Many Sender GRTT Measurement. . . . . . . . 27 3.7.2. One-to-Many Receiver RTT Measurement . . . . . . . 29 3.7.3. Many-to-Many RTT Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3.7.4. Sender GRTT Advertisement. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3.8. Group Size Determination/Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.9. Congestion Control Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.10 Router/Intermediate System Assistance . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.11 NORM Applicability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4. Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 5. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 6.1. Normative References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 6.2. Informative References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 7. Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36