A Comparison of Multicast Pull Models
Kirk Pruhs6
and Patchrawat Uthaisombut6 
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Computer Science Department, University of Pittsburgh, USA |
Abstract
We consider the setting of a web server that receives requests for documents from clients, and returns the requested documents
over a multicast/broadcast channel. We compare the quality of service (QoS) obtainable by optimal schedules under various
models of the capabilities of the server and the clients to send and receive segments of a document out of order. We show
that allowing the server to send segments out of order does not improve any reasonable QoS measure. However, the ability of
the clients to receive data out of order can drastically improve the achievable QoS under some, but not all, reasonable/common
QoS measures.
Supported in part by NSF grant CCR-0098752, NSF grant ANIR-0123705, and by a grant from the US Air Force.
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