MMTP (multicast and multidestination transport protocol)

Multicasting is the transfer of physically same data from one sender to a defined set of receivers. The conventional transport protocols like XTP and VMTP also support multicast, but these protocols have some problems, especially in error recovery, address management, acknowledgement management, and data flow. We survey the problems of these protocols, and compare them with MMTP, our new transport protocol designed to overcome these problems. We introduce a type of transfer, named multidestination, in the MMTP. Multidestination, transfers bulk error controlled individual data from one sender to many receivers using the one "M(Multidestination)DATA" packet.<>