ALC track advantages
Completely separated functionality
- No interdependencies between reliability protocol (FEC) and congestion control protocol (WEBRC)
Massively scalable reliable content delivery
- A single sender is adequate
- No feedback from receivers to the sender
- A single sender for millions of concurrent multicast receivers
- Seamless support for both multicast and unicast
- Minimizes delivery time for each receiver
- Receivers can start asynchronously
- Aggressively uses bandwidth between each receiver and sender
- Minimal amount of data needs to arrive at each receiver to recover content
- Friendly to competing flows
Notes:
Class of codes facilitates scalability.
Multiple rate needed for scalability.