@conference {2932,
	title = {Comparison of Single - Rate multicast Congestion Control protocol vs ASMP},
	booktitle = {16th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems - MASCOTS 2008, Baltimore, Maryland, USA},
	year = {2008},
	month = {8 - 10 September},
	pages = {309-316},
	abstract = {<p>We present in this paper a simulation-based comparison of two single-rate multicast congestion control schemes (TFMCC and PGMCC) against our proposed Adaptive Smooth Multicast Protocol (ASMP). ASMP consists of a single-rate multicast congestion control, which takes advantage of RTCP Sender (SR) and Receiver Reports (RR). The innovation in ASMP lays in the {\textquotedblleft}smooth{\textquotedblright} transmission rate, which is TCP-friendly and prevent oscillations. The smooth behavior is naturally well suited to multimedia applications as high oscillations of the sending rate may create distortions of Audio-Video (AV) encoders and decoders. Simulation results, which are conducted with the network simulator ns2 software, showed that ASMP can be regarded as a serious competitor of TFMCC and PGMCC. In many cases, ASMP outperforms TFMCC in terms of TCP-friendliness and smooth transmission rates, while PGMCC presents lower scalability than ASMP.</p>
},
	author = {Christos Bouras and Apostolos Gkamas and G Kioumourtzis}
}
