Enhancing the Fairness of PGMCC

To deploy multicast protocols, fairness to current Internet traffic, particularly TCP, is an important requirement. PGMCC is one of the most promising multicast congestion control proposals but it suffers from degradation of fairness by fixed timeout and uncertain acker selection. In this paper, we suggest addition of an adaptive timeout mechanism and NAK suppression in router using throughput comparison to improve fairness. Our simulation show improved fairness.