01857nas a2200169   4500008004100000245006000041210006000101260005000161300001500211520125500226653002301481653000901504100002101513700002201534700002201556856010901578       2009                        eng d00aCongestion Control for Multicast Transmission over UMTS0 aCongestion Control for Multicast Transmission over UMTS  bAuerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group  a 291 - 3123 a<p>In this chapter, we present a novel mechanism for the multicast congestion control over Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks. The proposed mechanism is based on the well known TCP-Friendly Multicast Congestion Control (TFMCC) scheme. TFMCC is an equation-based multicast congestion control mechanism intended to scale to groups of several thousand receivers. It is based on the concept of Current Limiting Receiver (CLR). The CLR is the receiver that the sender believes currently has the lowest expected throughput of the multicast group. The key challenge in the design of the new scheme lies in extending TFMCC in order to support the UMTS Terrestrial Radio-Access Network (UTRAN). Our major contribution is that the TFMCC mechanism was improved in order to cope with the packet losses caused by either the temporary or the permanent degradation of the wireless channel. One of the major advantages of the proposed scheme is that it introduces minor modifications in the UMTS nodes with respect to the computing power of the mobile terminals. Finally, we implement our approach in the ns-2 network simulator and we evaluate it under various conditions. The simulation results are presented along with their analysis.</p>
10aCongestion Control10aUMTS1 aBouras, Christos1 aAlexiou, Antonios1 aPapazois, Andreas  uhttp://telematics.upatras.gr/telematics/publications/congestion-control-multicast-transmission-over-umts