3450: Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) Protocol Instantiation.

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This document describes the Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) protocol, a massively scalable reliable content delivery protocol. Asynchronous Layered Coding combines the Layered Coding Transport (LCT) building block, a multiple rate congestion control building block and the Forward Error Correction (FEC) building block to provide congestion controlled reliable asynchronous delivery of content to an unlimited number of concurrent receivers from a single sender.

Status EXPERIMENTAL
Format TXT=86022 bytes
Authors J. Crowcroft L. Rizzo L. Vicisano J. Gemmell
Date December 2002
Keyphrases ALC receiver packet FEC

References

RFC768: User Datagram Protocol.
RFC1112: Host extensions for IP multicasting.
RFC2026: The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3.
RFC2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
RFC2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels.
RFC2327: SDP: Session Description Protocol.
RFC2357: IETF Criteria for Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application Protocols.
RFC2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
RFC2974: Session Announcement Protocol.
RFC3023: XML Media Types.
RFC3048: Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many Bulk-Data Transfer.
RFC3269: Author Guidelines for Reliable Multicast Transport (RMT) Building Blocks and Protocol Instantiation documents.
RFC3451: Layered Coding Transport (LCT) Building Block.
RFC3452: Forward Error Correction (FEC) Building Block.
RFC3453: The Use of Forward Error Correction (FEC) in Reliable Multicast.

Referenced by

RFC3738: Wave and Equation Based Rate Control (WEBRC) Building Block.
RFC3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers.
RFC3926: FLUTE - File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport.
RFC4046: Multicast Security (MSEC) Group Key Management Architecture.
RFC4410: Selectively Reliable Multicast Protocol (SRMP).
RFC4435: A Framework for the Usage of Internet Media Guides (IMGs).