Fifth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2000)
Bulk Data Multicast Rate Scheduling for Hybrid Heterogeneous Satellite-Terrestrial Networks
Antibes, France
July 04-July 06
ISBN: 0-7695-0722-0
We study a long-term, end-to-end rate-scheduling problem of multicasting a large bulk file over a hybrid satellite-terrestrial network to heterogeneous receivers. With selected receivers periodically reporting their long-term packet survival probabilities at each of the sender's transmission rates, we create a system, which is both, capable of trading off bandwidth consumption and receiver latency through a control parameter, and proactively maintaining a certain degree of reliable delivery. To increase bandwidth efficiency, we assume forward error correction (FEC) in the form of the Reed Solomon Erasure (RSE) coding. As an exact solution is computationally costly, we develop a rate-scheduling algorithm based on a Gaussian approximation and study its performance by simulations.
Index Terms:
Satellite Multicast, Bulk File, Forward Error Correction (FEC), Rate Scheduling, Rate Control
Citation:
Apinun Tunpan, M. Scott Corson, "Bulk Data Multicast Rate Scheduling for Hybrid Heterogeneous Satellite-Terrestrial Networks," iscc, pp.238, Fifth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2000), 2000