Future Work
n Ultimately, our goal is to develop reliable and secure
multicast solutions (pending finding unsuspecting students
to do the work).
n BCAST used as starting point with a NACK-based
retransmission scheme to further increase PDR
n Lessons learned to date: congestion control is more
important than packet retransmission scheme (when
network is congested, NACKs make bad situation worse,
independent of network capacity)
n Implemented BCAST on Linux laptops, with some
preliminary work comparing simulation results and testbed
measurements (using MNE, driven by NS2 traces)
Ø Unfortunately, testbed measurements correspond neither
quantitatively nor qualitatively with NS2 results