Impact of receiver cheating on the stability of ALM tree

Author

Li, Dan ; Cui, Yong ; Xu, Ke ; Wu, Jianping

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

2-2 Dec. 2005

Lastpage

671

Abstract

Application layer multicast (ALM) is an effective supplement to IP multicast, but it has the potential trouble of trust on end systems. For instance, multicast receivers may cheat in order to obtain a better position in the multicast tree. Receiver cheating may transform the multicast tree, and lead to its instability. We establish the cheating model of ALM receivers and analyze the stability of ALM tree when receiver cheating occurs. Simulation results show that receiver cheating has considerably negative effects on the stability of ALM tree. This discovery brings forward an issue in ALM study, that is, we should take receiver cheating into consideration to maintain a stable ALM tree when designing ALM protocols

Keywords

IP networks; multicast protocols; receivers; routing protocols; IP multicast; application layer multicast; multicast tree; protocols; receiver cheating; Computer science; Costs; Current measurement; Distance measurement; Internet; Multicast protocols; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Propagation delay; Stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2005. GLOBECOM '05. IEEE

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9414-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2005.1577725

Filename

1577725