Paper Info
Title
An adaptable and ISP-friendly multicast overlay network
Abstract
Multicast is a group communication paradigm which aims at reducing, as much as possible, the amount of data generated into the network. Thus, IP Multicast presents itself as a technology that allows data to be distributed in such a way that the least amount of replicas of the same packet is placed into the network. However, the limited deployment of IP level Multicast protocols has lead to new approaches, in the application-level, implementing multicast using end systems and not routers. This concept has resulted in different approaches denominated as Application-Layer Multicast (ALM) or Overlay Multicast based systems. In this context, this work presents and analyzes an overlay multicast system envisioned to be highly reconfigurable and adaptable to different usability contexts. Such system versatility is not only present in the capability to construct distinct multicast distribution trees, but also in the integration of several advanced Traffic Engineering mechanisms based on collaborative efforts between the overlay and the Internet Service Provider (ISP) levels. Results from the proposed overlay system and associated mechanisms are obtained using a real system implementation which has been tested in a network emulation tool, with the experimental scenarios encompassing both single and multiple Autonomous Systems (AS).
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s12083-018-0680-y
Peer-to-peer Networking and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Overlay networks, Peer-to-peer (P2P) multicasting, Application-layer multicast, Collaborative systems, Internet service providers (ISPs), Traffic engineering
Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Overlay multicast,Autonomous system (Internet),Multicast,Overlay network,IP multicast,Network emulation,Distributed computing,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12.0
4.0
1936-6450
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
13
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
André Sampaio100.34
Pedro Sousa217425.25