Multipoint-to-multipoint communication protocol and its group management mechanism

Author

Kawai, Tsutomu ; Akiyama, Joutarou ; Okada, Minoru

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Electron., Nagoya Univ., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

77

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to design a symmetric inter and intra group communication protocol among many workstations with reliability. Our protocol supports multipoint-to-multipoint communication with efficiency and reliability. We assume the network size to be a campus-LAN, communicating tens to hundreds of nodes on that network. We design this protocol symmetrically. This means that no master server is assigned on the network. A group management mechanism for the multipoint-to-multipoint communication protocol is also proposed. A user joining the system can change the topology of the multipoint-to-multipoint communication network flexibly

Keywords

computer network reliability; groupware; protocols; workstation clusters; campus-LAN; group management mechanism; multipoint-to-multipoint communication protocol; network topology; reliability; symmetric intergroup communication protocol; symmetric intragroup communication protocol; workstations; Broadcasting; Design engineering; Fires; Internet; Multicast protocols; Network servers; Reliability engineering; Streaming media; Telecommunication network reliability; Teleconferencing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.825211

Filename

825211