Anode-ALM: An Aggregation-Based Application Level Multicast for Media Streaming

Building application level multicast (ALM) for media streaming, we had better keep the invariability of source to-end delay (S2EDelay) of any node on the tree, so as to avoid delay jitter problem. In this paper, we proposed an aggregation-based ALM architecture, which aggregates the unstable nodes within a local area into a relative stable aggregation node Anode, and then builds tree by Anodes. Anode shields node´s dynamicity inside and behaves as a stable one outside. To build the architecture, we first proposed an Anode structure by n-dimension anti-cube, and proposed a distributed algorithm to bind the logic view and physical view of an Anode dynamically by the differentiation and assimilation operations, which maintain the integrality of the logic view while the physical view changes dynamically. Experiment results indicate that our algorithm can keep the S2EDelay invariability of the built ALM tree effectively.