Metodología de empleo de herramientas software para el análisis y evaluación de protocolos de transporte multicast

In this paper, we present a set of software tools (network analyzers and data processing language applications) which allow the study of multicast transport protocols in real environments. To evaluate the proposed tools’ efficiency we used the MTP (MUst Transport Protocol) developed by us in a recent work and also briefly outlined in this paper. This transport protocol offers multicast transfer service to the application layer to replicate efficiently files or hard disk partitions among server and clients. There are multiple application scenarios where this protocol can be used (peer to peer, instant messaging, games, etc.). The main statistical performance parameters obtained by test labs, are also presented and discussed.Este trabajo ha sido subvencionado por los proyectos nacionales FAR-IP (TIC2000-1734-C03-03) y MTCES (TIC2001-3339-C02-02)