Stephen A. Hurst

Multiple ACK windows providing congestion control in reliable multicast protocol

Detecting congestion by comparing successive loss of packets in windows to provide congestion control in reliable multicast protocol

Dynamic optimization for receivers using distance between a repair head and a member station in a repair group for receivers having a closely knit topological arrangement to locate repair heads near the member stations which they serve in tree based repair in reliable multicast protocol

TRAM: A Tree-based Reliable Multicast Protocol

Tree-based reliable multicast system where sessions are established by repair nodes that authenticate receiver nodes presenting participation certificates granted by a central authority

Efficient message distribution to subsets of large computer networks using multicast for near nodes and unicast for far nodes

Repair TTL computation and correction mechanism to perform localized repairs in a multicast data distribution setup/framework

Determination of distance between nodes in a computer network

Method and apparatus for routing and congestion control in multicast networks

Method and apparatus using ranking to select repair nodes in formation of a dynamic tree for multicast repair