A stabilized Core-Stateless Fair Queuing Mechanism for a Layered Multicast Network

Layered multicasting is an effective technique in distributing large-scale streaming multimedia content over the standard IP networks -which form the Internet. The major issue is fairness, which is the desire for the multicast traffic not to overwhelm other usual traffic such as standard TCP traffic. The need for speed of UDP and its designed nature of obtaining as much bandwidth as possible is what causes the issue of negative impact on competing TCP flows. Therefore a goal of operation is to control UDP traffic and use its potential without disrupting other types of traffic. The focus of this paper is to analyse aspects of an amalgamation of core stateless fair queuing and stabilised random early drop along with other ideas in an attempt to offer an improved scheme for layered multicast fairness that will form a new protocol called stabilised CSFQ