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Building Low Delay Application Layer Multicast Trees

Tan, Su-Wei and Waters, A. Gill (2003) Building Low Delay Application Layer Multicast Trees. In: Merabti, Madjid and Pereira, Rubem, eds. 4th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networks & Broadcasting. Liverpool John Moore University, pp. 27-32. ISBN 1-902560-09-4. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:13965)

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Abstract

Application Layer Multicast (ALM) enables rapid deployment of multicast applications which have been hindered by sparse deployment of network layer multicast infrastructure. In ALM, application hosts organise themselves into an overlay topology on top of the underlying unicast network solutions. Application data is multicast over the overlay network. This paper investigates the problem of building a low delay overlay tree in a distributed manner. We study and propose an enhancement to an existing protocol called Tree Building Control Protocol (TBCP). We also propose a new strategy to maintain and improve the tree quality in a changing network environment. Our simulation results indicate that the enhancement and the new tree refinement technique outperform the previous proposals.

Item Type: Book section
Uncontrolled keywords: Application layer multicast, distributed tree building protocol
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Funders: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (https://ror.org/0439y7842)
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 24 Nov 2008 18:01 UTC
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2022 10:39 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/13965 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Tan, Su-Wei.

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Waters, A. Gill.

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