A scalable protocol for member join/leave in DiffServ multicast

Author

Striegel, A. ; Manimaran, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

395

Lastpage

404

Abstract

The phenomenal growths of group communications and QoS-aware applications over the Internet have accelerated the development of two key technologies, namely, multicasting and Differentiated Services (DiffServ). Although both are complementary technologies, the integration of the two technologies is a non-trivial task due to architectural conflicts between multicasting and DiffServ. We propose a protocol for member join/leave in a DiffServ network that is scalable in terms of group size, network size, and number of groups. We detail our join/leave protocol for both intra-domain and inter-domain routing as well as the various different types of multicast trees (single source tree, shortest path tree, shared tree, many-to-many tree). Finally, we present simulation studies regarding the performance of our join/leave protocol

Keywords

Internet; multicast communication; quality of service; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; trees (mathematics); DiffServ multicast; Differentiated Services; IP multicast; Internet; QoS-aware applications; group communications; group size; inter-domain routing; intra-domain routing; join/leave protocol; many-to-many tree; member join/leave; multicast trees; network size; scalable DiffServ network; scalable protocol; shared tree; shortest path tree; simulation; single source tree; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Diffserv networks; Educational institutions; Intelligent networks; Laboratories; Multicast protocols; Quality of service; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2001. Proceedings. LCN 2001. 26th Annual IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1321-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2001.990815

Filename

990815