@conference {2789,
	title = {Architecture and Performance Evaluation for Redundant Multicast Transmission Supporting Adaptive QoS},
	booktitle = {9th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCom 2001) Split, Dubrovnik(Croatia), Ancona, Bari (Italy), vol II},
	year = {2001},
	month = {9 - 12 October},
	pages = { 585 - 592},
	abstract = {<p>In this paper we describe the architecture of an application that was developed for the transmission of multimedia data, using the multicast mechanism, over the Internet. There are two major issues that have to be considered when designing and implementing such a service, the fairness and the adaptation schemes. In our application we use a mechanism that categorizes the receivers into a number of groups according to each receiver{\textquoteright}s capabilities and (the mechanism) serves each group of users with a different multicast stream. We have also implemented an additional mechanism for the intra-stream bit rate adaptation. The proposed mechanism uses a {\textquotedblleft}friendly{\textquotedblright} to the network users congestion control policy to control the transmission of the data. We evaluate the adaptive multicast transmission mechanism through a number of experiments in order to examine its behaviour to a heterogeneous group of receivers and its behaviour against TCP and UDP data streams.</p>
},
	author = {Christos Bouras and Apostolos Gkamas and Kostas Stamos and A Karaliotas}
}
