Title: The Satellite Reliable Distribution
Protocol (SRDP)
Authors: Franco Tommasi, Simone Molendini, Andrea Tricco
Abstract: The Satellite Reliable Distribution Protocol (SRDP) is
proposed and discussed. SRDP is designed for satellite-based data broadcasting
and aims at transmitting reliably multicast via satellite Internet applications�
data in an efficient and scalable way. SRDP operates in three steps, called
phases. In phase 1 the sender transmits a file through the satellite internet
adding a reasonable degree of redundancy. In phase 2 the sender retransmits a
set of new redundant packets to recover some packets that were lost during phase
1. Phase 3 allows each receiver to request all its missing packets by a TCP
connection to the sender. In order to evaluate the performance of the SRDP, we
have considered two different types of loss behaviours: random and burst. Our
results show how to choose the amount of redundancy in order to optimize the
performance of the SRDP