Congestion control is among the fundamental problems of Internet multicast. It is an active research area with many challenges. In this study, an introduction to Internet congestion control and a brief literature survey of current multicast congestion control protocols is presented. Then two recently proposed 3single-rate, end-to-end, rate based4 class of protocols, namely LESBCC and TFMCC are evaluated with respect to their intersession fairness (TCP-friendliness), smoothness and responsiveness criteria. Throughout the experiments, which are conducted using a widely accepted network simulation tool 1ns2, different topologies have been employed.M.S. - Master of Scienc