FEC can be combined with ARQ to achieve large scalable reliable mutlicast. The NACK im-plosion is a major problem in receiver-initiated reliable multicast when a large, number of receivers sendsNACK to the sender. The method that receivers send NACK to the sender based on timer can avoid theNACK implosion. We propose a method to set timers. The method of time divided unequally and basedon exponential distribution to set timers has the better perfornance. By analysis for up to 10^10 receivers,we show the NACK implosion is avoided and feedback delay due to timers is low.
This paper proposes an active networks architecture which supports both integrated and discrete operationmodel based on mobile Agent technology. Mobile Agent is the component for customized function transferring, activenode provides software application layer, and Agent server processes mobile Agent specific customization. For devel-opment and deployment of specific application protocol, this paper also proposes an abstract protocol framework and aprotocol loading mechanism to enhance network performance.
