feedback implosion problem

An end-to-end reliable multicast protocol using polling for scaleability

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PRMP: A Scaleable Polling-based Reliable Multicast Protocol

Traditional reliable unicast protocols (e.g., TCP), known as sender-initiated schemes, do not scale well for one-to-many reliable multicast due mainly to implosion losses caused by excessive rate of feedback packets arriving from receivers. So, …