• RFC 3208 - PGM Reliable Transport Protocol Specification

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3208.txt

• RFC 1112 - Host Extensions for IP Multicasting

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1112.txt

• RFC 2113 - IP Router Alert Option

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2113.txt

• RFC 1321 - The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt

• RFC 3678 - Socket Interface Extensions for Multicast Source Filters

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3678.txt

• RFC 3246 - An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3246.txt

• RFC 3168 - The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3168.txt

• RFC 1700 - Assigned Numbers

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1700.txt

• RFC 4654 - TCP-Friendly Multicast Congestion Control (TFMCC)

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4654.txt

• Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-rs-05.txt

• Generic Router Assist (GRA) Building Block Motivation and Architecture

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rmt-gra-arch-02

• PGMCC single rate multicast congestion control scheme

http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/03jul/I-D/draft-ietf-rmt-bb-pgmcc-02.txt

http://www.potaroo.net/ietf/old-ids/draft-ietf-rmt-bb-pgmcc-03.txt

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/pgmcc.000608.ps.gz

• Dynamics of the "pgmcc" Multicast Congestion Control Protocol

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/research/ugrad/TektronixReport-Chinwang.pdf

• Efficient broadband multi-media data distribution over the Internet using Multicast

http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~karandi/pubs_dir/UCLA-WINMEC-2003-609-Multicast-sent.pdf

• Congestion Control in the RFC Series

http://www.rfc-editor.org/internet-drafts/draft-irtf-iccrg-cc-rfcs-07.txt

• Multicast Congestion Control with Distrusted Receivers

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~vin/pub/pdf/ngc02.pdf

• StarBurst Multicast File Transfer Protocol (MFTP) Specification

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-miller-mftp-spec-03

• Pragmatic General Multicast(PGM) Reliable Transport Protocol Management Information Base (MIB)

http://www.potaroo.net/ietf/old-ids/draft-petrova-nwg-pgmmib-00.txt

• Reliable Multicast Programming (PGM) (Windows)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740125.aspx

• PGM Router Assist - Cisco Systems

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_0t/12_0t5/feature/guide/pgmscale.html

• Analysing the PGM Protocol with UPPAAL

http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/Publis/PAPERS/PDF/BBP-IJPR04.pdf

• Synthesis and verification of constraints in the PGM protocol

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/11/02/52/PDF/main.pdf

• In Search of an API for Scalable Reliable Multicast

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69547/tr-97-17.doc

• An API for Scalable Reliable Multicast

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/68230/icccn97.doc

• The PGM Reliable Multicast Protocol

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/68888/pgm_ieee_network.doc

• Optimizing Buffer Management for Reliable Multicast

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/quicksilver/public_pdfs/Optimizing%20Buffer.pdf

• Multicast Transport Protocols: A Survey and Taxonomy

http://www.isi.edu/div7/publication_files/multicast_transport.pdf

• Theory and Practice in Distributed Systems

http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k-zlMWKVbNAC

• A High Performance Totally Ordered Multicast Protocol

http://www.whetten.net/documents/Dagstuhl%20RMP%20Paper.pdf

• A Reliable Multicast Framework for Light-weight Sessions and Application Level Framing

http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/papers/srm_ton.pdf

• RMTP: A Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol

https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/62747/1/62747.pdf

• Gigabit Networking

http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GUZGHzL-bM4C

• Parity-Based Loss Recovery for Reliable Multicast Transmission

http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/papers/nonnenmacher97paritybased.pdf

• Congestion Avoidance and Control

http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf

• Scalable Feedback Control for Multicast Video Distribution in the Internet

ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/bolot/94.Video_feedback.ps.gz

• End-to-End Multicast Congestion Control and Avoidance

http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma/research/papers/jiangthesis.ppt

• A Router Implementation of Pragmatic General Multicast

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.lad/rpgm/

• A PGM Host Implementation for FreeBSD

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/pgm.html

• Effective Erasure Codes for Reliable Computer. Communication Protocols

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/fec_ccr.ps.gz

• RMDP: an FEC-based Reliable Multicast protocol for Wireless environments

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/mccr6.ps.gz

• A Reliable Multicast data Distribution Protocol based on software FEC techniques (RMDP)

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/hpcs97.ps.gz

• On the feasibility of software FEC

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/softfec.ps.gz

• D58: Pragmatic General Multicast

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/darpa/pgm/PGM_FINAL.html

• Topology Discovery Service for Router-Assisted Multicast Transport

ftp://gaia.cs.umass.edu/pub/Shapiro01_atdp.pdf

• Exactly-once Delivery in a Content-based Publish-Subscribe System

http://www.research.ibm.com/distributedmessaging/papers/GDdsn02.ps

• The Breadcrumb Forwarding Service: A Synthesis of PGM and EXPRESS to Improve and Simplify Global IP Multicast

http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/ccr/archive/2000/april00/bcfs_ccr.ps

• Performance Comparison of LMS and PGM using Simulation

http://web.archive.org/web/20050227203321/http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/~christos/PostScriptDocs/Infocom99-submission.ps.Z

This paper refers to an early version of the PGM draft specification which was subsequently updated with off-tree DLR support to address the issues raised.

• Scalability, throughput stability and efficient buffering in reliable multicast protocols

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Projects/Quicksilver/public_pdfs/scalability%20throughout.pdf

• The Cost of Active Services in Active Reliable Multicast

http://web.univ-pau.fr/~cpham/Paper/AMS02.ps.gz

• Scalable Data Naming for Application Level Framing in Reliable Multicast

https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/63407/1/63407.pdf

• Scalable Secure Group Communication over IP Multicast

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~suman/pubs/cs-tr-4252.ps.gz

• An IPSec-based Host Architecture for Secure Internet Multicast

http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/2000/proceedings/028.pdf

http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/2000/proceedings/slides/04.ppt

• Recovery Performance of PGM with Redundancy Estimation for Proactive FEC

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/research/technical_reports/2003/TR%2003-019.pdf

• PGM-based reliable multicast data dissemination in satellite IP networks

http://ala.isti.cnr.it/atti/ISWCS05/iwssc05/pdf/FS3-3.pdf

• DyRAM : a Reliable Multicast Protocol

http://lara.inist.fr/bitstream/2332/822/1/LIP-RR2003-05.pdf

• An Enhancement of Multicast Congestion Control over Hybrid Wired/Wireless Networks

http://web.archive.org/web/20060812013021/http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/ZHOU0022/papers/YLiu04.pdf

Proposes an enhanced congestion control scheme called EPGMCC (Enhanced PGMCC).

• MTCP: Scalable TCP-like Congestion Control for Reliable Multicast

ftp://ftp.csc.ncsu.edu/pub/tech/98/TR-98-01.ps.Z

• PGMCC의 공정성 향상 (Improving the fairness of PGMCC)

http://eeca2.sogang.ac.kr/publications/international/PGMCC.pdf

Discusses alternative ACKer selection timeout algorithms

• Extending Equation-based Congestion Control to Multicast Applications

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.handley/papers/tfmcc-sigcomm.pdf

Introduction to TFMCC (RFC4654)

• High-Performance, Reliable Multicasting: Foundations for Future Internet Groupware Applications

http://airex.tksc.jaxa.jp/pl/dr/19980019497/en

• Pacifier: High-Throughput, Reliable Multicast without "Crying Babies" in Wireless Mesh Networks

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~dkoutson/publications/pacifier.pdf

• Reliable Multicast Transport Protocols Performances in Emulated Satellite Environment Taking into Account an Adaptive Physical Layer for the Geocast System

http://www.cost280.rl.ac.uk/documents/WS2%20Proceedings/documents/pm-5-068.pdf

• Locating repair servers in hierarchical reliable multicast networks to reduce the makespan

http://os.korea.ac.kr/publication_papers/inter_journal/ssbyun_IJCS_2009.pdf

makespan is the time that is required to fully and successfully transmit a packet from the sender to all receivers.