公开(公告)号：US5459725A

公开(公告)日：1995-10-17

申请号：US215534

申请日：1994-03-22

申请人： Rachel A. Bodner ,  Chee-Seng Chow ,  Israel Cidon ,  John G. Dudley ,  Allan K. Edwards ,  Inder S. Gopal ,  Chandra P. Immanuel ,  Marc A. Kaplan ,  Shay Kutten ,  Theodore E. Tedijanto

发明人： Rachel A. Bodner ,  Chee-Seng Chow ,  Israel Cidon ,  John G. Dudley ,  Allan K. Edwards ,  Inder S. Gopal ,  Chandra P. Immanuel ,  Marc A. Kaplan ,  Shay Kutten ,  Theodore E. Tedijanto

IPC分类号： H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L1/12

CPC分类号： H04L12/1868 ,  H04L1/1685 ,  H04L1/188 ,  H04L12/1854 ,  H04L2001/0093 ,  H04L2001/125

摘要： A packet communications network in which multicast transmissions are made reliable by transmitting acknowledgements to all neighbors of every receiving node, including the source node. This allows the relinquishment of message holding buffers as soon as all near neighbors acknowledge receipt of the message after only tile longest round trip time to the nearest neighbors, rather than the round trip to the furthest destination. Moreover, highly reliable ancillary point-to-point transmission facilities can be used to retransmit multicast messages indicated as being lost by failure of acknowledgment. Finally, network partitions occurring during the multicast procedure do not necessarily lose the multicast message to the remote partitions since any node receiving the message can insure delivery to all other nodes in that partition.

摘要翻译： 一种分组通信网络，其中通过向包括源节点的每个接收节点的所有邻居发送确认使多播传输变得可靠。 一旦所有邻近的邻居都确认在最近的往返时间最长的往返时间之后确认接收到消息，而不是最远的目的地的往返行程，则可以放弃信息保持缓冲区。 此外，高度可靠的辅助点对点传输设施可以用于重传由确认失败指示为丢失的多播消息。 最后，在多播过程中发生的网络分区不一定会丢失到远程分区的多播消息，因为接收消息的任何节点都可以确保传送到该分区中的所有其他节点。