Paper Info
Title
Quantitative simulation of XCAST6 performance using OMNeT++
Abstract
Explicit multiunicast (XCAST) is a form of small group multicast in which the sender embeds IP addresses of all receiving nodes in a special header and sends it with all data packets. On sending, each XCAST-aware router in the path examines the packet and partitions the destinations into various sets based on their next hops. For each set, the router uses a bitmap in the packet header to ensure that each copy of the packet is delivered only to destinations whose corresponding bits in the bitmap are set to 1. Sometimes real world implementation of XCAST6 can take a long time to deploy and resource constraints can limit the scale of testing that can be done. We have therefore integrated XCAST6 into the IPv6 stack of INET Framework for OMNeT++ to allow for large-scale, exhaustive and realistic investigation of XCAST6 characteristics and to complement our current research into real world deployment of XCAST6. The contribution of this paper is two fold. First, it describes our implementation of XCAST6 in OMNeT++'s INET framework. Secondly, it experimentally shows the effectiveness of XCAST6 with regards to various multicast performance metrics such as stress, end-to-end delay, efficiency and packet processing overhead rate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2089016.2089021
AINTEC
Keywords
Field
DocType
quantitative simulation,xcast-aware router,small group multicast,inet framework,real world deployment,data packet,special header,real world implementation,xcast6 performance,packet header,xcast6 characteristic,packet processing overhead rate,quantitative,simulation,end to end delay
Computer science,Xcast,Network packet,Computer network,Real-time computing,Inet,Packet processing,Router,Header,Multicast,Bitmap,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.48
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Odira Elisha Abade142.27
Katsuhiko Kaji213027.22
Nobuo Kawaguchi331364.23