Reliable concurrent multicast from bursty sources

This work presents a protocol and design for concurrent and reliable group multicast (many-to-many) from bursty data sources in general networks. The reliable multicast protocol presented is window based with a combined sender and receiver initiation of the recovery protocol. The approach taken is to combine the multicast operation with the internal flow control. Lastly, a multiple criteria optimization study of the bandwidth allocation to each multicast group is presented.