Title
GPM: A generic and scalable P2P model that optimizes tree depth for multicast communications
Abstract
Group communications (real-time and non-real-time) refer to one-to-many or many-to-many communications. On the one hand, multicast is considered as an appropriate solution for supporting group communication-oriented applications (we distinguish IP network multicast from application layer multicast). On the other hand, peer-to-peer model tends to be a good candidate for supporting today Internet applications (e.g. P2P IPTV, P2P VoIP, etc.). In this context, P2P has attracted significant interest in the recent years. This is mainly due to its properties that also make P2P well adapted to today social networks. In this paper, we propose GPM (Generic P2P Multicast): a novel generic and scalable approach, that optimizes multicast tree depth in P2P networks (structured and unstructured), and contributes to control the network overlay latency. For multicast tree construction, the approach we propose is based on a distributed algorithm using a specific data structures (adjacency and forwarding matrixes). GPM model inherits from P2P attributes such as scalability, flexibility and fault tolerance, while taking into consideration the respective characteristics of one-to-many and many-to-many type of applications. We also give a performance evaluation for validation and comparison purposes while considering some main existing application layer multicast protocols. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1002/dac.1275
Int. J. Communication Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
GPM,P2P,application layer multicast,multicast tree depth
Source-specific multicast,Inter-domain,Protocol Independent Multicast,Multicast address,Computer science,Xcast,Computer network,Pragmatic General Multicast,Multicast,IP multicast,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
4
1074-5351
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.54
30
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mourad Amad13310.20
Ahmed Meddahi25312.00
Djamil Aïssani311027.77
Gilles Vanwormhoudt410815.60