A performance comparison of native IP Multicast and IP Multicast tunneled through a Peer-to-Peer overlay network

Author

Brogle, Marc ; Milic, Dragan ; Bettosini, Luca ; Braun, Torsten

Author_Institution

Inst. for Comput. Sci. & Appl. Math., Univ. of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

fYear

2009

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We have developed the multicast middleware, a bridge between IP multicast and a self-organizing overlay multicast infrastructure, in order to make IP multicast available to the end user.We compare the performance of native IP multicast and IP multicast tunneled through a P2P overlay multicast network using the multicast middleware. We show that the achievable throughput can be quite high when using overlay multicast for data transport together with the IP multicast API and that the latency introduced by processing (en- and decapsulation) and tunneling the captured packets can be negligible.

Keywords

IP networks; middleware; multicast communication; peer-to-peer computing; IP multicast tunneling; P2P overlay multicast; data transport; multicast middleware; native IP multicast; peer-to-peer overlay network; self-organization; Broadcasting; Delay; Games; IPTV; Middleware; Multicast protocols; Multimedia communication; Peer to peer computing; Routing; Throughput; IP Multicast; Multicasting; Overlay Multicast; Overlay Networks; Performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra Modern Telecommunications & Workshops, 2009. ICUMT '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Petersburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3942-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3941-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUMT.2009.5345658

Filename

5345658