The group protocol supports applications with enough quality of service (QoS,) in change of QoS supported by the underlying network and required by applications. A flexible group service is supported for applications by cooperation of multiple autonomous agents. Each agent dynamically and autonomously takes a class of each protocol function like retransmission which is consistent with the other agents.
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Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2003. Proceedings. 23rd International Conference on
Date of Conference: 19-22 May 2003