IP multicasting is the most efficient way to perform group data distribution, as it eliminates traffic redundancy and improves bandwidth utilization. Application Layer Multicast (...
Despite its obvious suitability for distributed multimedia applications, multicasting has not yet found widespread application. Having analyzed shortcomings of today's approac...
Michel Diaz, Roberto Canonico, Luis Costa, Serge F...
We present an approach to building multicast services at the network layer using unicast forwarding and two additional building blocks: (i) ephemeral state probes, i.e. extremely l...
Abstract—Introspection is the prerequisite of an autonomic behavior, the first step towards a performance improvement and a resource-usage optimization for largescale distribute...
Alexandra Carpen-Amarie, Jing Cai, Alexandru Costa...
The characteristics of ad hoc networks naturally encourage the deployment of distributed services. Although current networks implement group communication methods, they do not sup...