Performance evaluation of a multicast congestion control protocol

Abstract - This paper presents a performance evaluation of our CIFL congestion control protocol for layered multicast transmis - sion We present an overview of the protocol, whose performance are then considered in a real testbed Protocol dynamics, robust - ness and TCP - friendliness are investigated in an environment car - rying a layered video stream and experiencing various network conditions in terms of losses and delays The conducted experi - ments also illustrate the IGMP leave latency problem