A Proxy-based Mobile Group Membership Protocol for Large Scale and Highly Dynamic Groups

Author

Wang, Guojun ; Cao, Jiannong ; Chan, Keith C C

Author_Institution

Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong; School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, P. R. China, 410083, csgjwang@mail.csu.edu.cn, csgjwang@comp.polyu.

Volume

4

fYear

2006

fDate

38869

Firstpage

1897

Lastpage

1902

Abstract

We propose a RingNet hierarchy of proxies for mobile group communications, which is a combination of logical rings and logical trees to take advantages of the simplicity of the former and the scalability of the latter. Based on the hierarchy, we propose a fault tolerant mobile group membership protocol for large scale and highly dynamic groups. Simulation studies show that the proposed protocol scales very well when the size of the network becomes large, and that it is highly resilient to failures when the node failure probability becomes large.

Keywords

Fault tolerance; Large-scale systems; Maintenance; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Next generation networking; Protocols; Satellites; Scalability; Wireless networks; Group communications; fault tolerance; group membership; group multicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2006. ICC '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

ISSN

8164-9547

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0355-3

Electronic_ISBN

8164-9547

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2006.254997

Filename

4024430