Title
Scalable Multicast Representative Member Selection
Abstract
In multicast applications requiring receiver feedback, the primary impediment to receiver-set scalability stems from the feedback implosion problem. Some applications only need feedback From a single, representative receiver. For example, an adaptive video server may only need to know the video quality for the worst receiver. Soliciting a response from a receiver with the specific metric value is difficult because a receiver does not know the metric value at other receivers and, therefore, cannot assess if it should report its metric value. Previous work in feedback aggregation solicits a response from any single receiver, not a receiver with some particular metric characteristic. In addition, existing solutions exhibit high application specificity, allowing very little protocol control. We propose adaptation of two existing approaches to representative selection: backoff timers and probabilitistic polls. Both adapted approaches are application independent protocols and allow control over the definition of implosion, probability of implosion, and target metric values. We explicitly consider the inherent tradeoff between implosion and delay.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/INFCOM.2001.916708
IEEE INFOCOM 2001: THE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS, VOLS 1-3, PROCEEDINGS: TWENTY YEARS INTO THE COMMUNICATIONS ODYSSEY
Keywords
Field
DocType
multicast, feedback, implosion, probabilistic polling
Source-specific multicast,Protocol Independent Multicast,Video server,Computer science,Xcast,Computer network,Probabilistic logic,Multicast,Video quality,Distributed computing,Scalability
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0743-166X
14
0.79
References 
Authors
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael J. Donahoo113752.31
Sunila R. Ainapure2140.79