HostCast: a new overlay multicasting protocol

Author

Li, Zhi ; Mohapatra, Prasant

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

11-15 May 2003

Firstpage

702

Abstract

Though the merits of IP-based multicast are undeniable, the deployment of IP multicast has met many difficulties. In the past several years, lots of research works have been done on overlay multicast. In this paper, we propose a new overlay multicast protocol: HostCast. Besides constructing a data delivery tree, HostCast uses a simple and efficient approach to form an overlay mesh for control and maintenance. The mesh can effectively facilitate the overlay multicasting. HostCast improves the reliability of overlay multicast tree and decreases the convergence time as demonstrated by the results obtained via simulation.

Keywords

Internet; data communication; mesh generation; multicast protocols; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; HostCast; IP-based multicast; data delivery tree; overlay mesh; overlay multicast; overlay multicast protocols; overlay multicast tree; Communication system traffic control; Computer science; Convergence; Joining processes; Maintenance; Multicast protocols; Routing protocols; Stability; Telecommunication network reliability; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2003. ICC '03. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7802-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2003.1204265

Filename

1204265