Analysis of Traffic Control System for Supporting MCS Multicasting on ATM Subnetworks

The multicasting of MCS(Multicast Server) requires a effective traffic control scheme to prevent buffer overflow on ATM subnetworks. This paper considers MCS multicasting to TCP packets, and propose EPD + SPD scheme(Early Packet Discard-same Source Packet Discard) using common buffer. When the threshold of output buffer is reached, MCS drops an entire packet prior to buffer overflow, so that corrupted packets will not be transmitted by the server. And SPD scheme show that the EPD + SPD results in higher TCP throughput than that of tail drop and EPD + DFF.