Hopcount in Application Layer Multicast Schemes

Author

Janic, Milena ; Wangi, N. I. Cempaka ; Zhou, Xiaoxin ; Van Mieghem, Piet

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Delft Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2005

fDate

27-29 July 2005

Firstpage

197

Lastpage

204

Abstract

Application layer (AL) multicast emerged as a response to a slow deployment of IP multicast. However, the gain of AL multicast over unicast is questionable. We investigate the efficiency of the two prominent protocols, MCAN and Scribe, in terms of the number of hops. We compare the efficiency of these algorithms to the efficiency of unicast and IP multicast via extensive simulations, as well as via measurements on the PlanetLab network. We introduce modifications to the MCAN algorithm that lead to a reduction in the hopcount. Finally, we demonstrate that the topology unawareness under certain conditions can make these schemes less efficient than unicast

Keywords

IP networks; controller area networks; multicast protocols; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network topology; IP multicast; MCAN protocol; PlanetLab network; Scribe protocol; application layer multicast scheme; hopcount; topology unawareness; unicast communication; Application software; Computer science; Extraterrestrial measurements; Mathematics; Multicast algorithms; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Proposals; Routing; Unicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Computing and Applications, Fourth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2326-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCA.2005.25

Filename

1565953