— The conventional wisdom has been that IP is the natural protocol layer for implementing multicast related functionality. However, more than a decade after its initial proposal,...
With the increasing deployment of multimedia real-time Internet applications, evaluating transport protocol metrics of Quality of Service (QoS) has gained rapidly increasing impor...
Abstract. We consider the problem of delivering real-time, near realtime and stored streaming media to a large number of asynchronous clients. This problem has been studied in the ...
In the last few years, multicasting is increasingly used as an efficient communication mechanism for group-oriented applications in the Internet. Some multicast applications requi...
Said Gharout, Yacine Challal, Abdelmadjid Bouabdal...
This paper focuses on understanding the scale and the distribution of “state overhead” (briefly load) that is incurred on the routers by various value-added network services,...