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This paper presents a transport-level multicast protocol that is useful for building fault-tolerant group-based applications. It provides (i) reliable, end-to-end message delivery, and (ii) a failure suspector service wherein best efforts are made to avoid mistakes. This service can facilitate an efficient, higher level implementation of group membership service which does not capriciously exclude a functioning and connected member from the membership set. The protocol has mechanisms for flow- and implosion- control, and for recovering from packet losses. Through simulations, its performance is studied for both homogeneous and heterogeneous network configurations. The results are very encouraging.
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Liu, C., Ezhilchelvan, P.D., Barcellos, M. (1999). A Multicast Transport Protocol for Reliable Group Applications. In: Rizzo, L., Fdida, S. (eds) Networked Group Communication. NGC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1736. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46703-8_11
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