Split connection scheme for session-based group communication

Group-oriented communication services have become more attractive due to diversifying demands of Internet users. In such emerging applications, information shared or exchanged by users in a group should be quickly and reliably delivered to other group members. However, the current Internet architecture is difficult to accommodate these applications efficiently. Therefore, a novel network architecture concept has been proposed to achieve group-oriented communication. Although this concept enables such communication, intelligent connection management schemes are also needed to improve the efficiency of network resource use. In this paper, we propose a session-based mechanism for efficient group communication. Furthermore, we show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme by means of simulations.