Abstract. MPNT (Multicast Proxies NeTwork) is an overlay architecture that was first conceived to provide multicast access to unicast-only users, like TutTelNet distant students. ...
Application-level multicast on structured overlays often suffer several drawbacks: 1) The regularity of the architecture makes it difficult to adapt to topology changes; 2) the u...
Ruixiong Tian, Yongqiang Xiong, Qian Zhang, Bo Li,...
In this paper, we propose a new protocol called Shared Tree Streaming (or STS in short) protocol that is designed for interactive multimedia streaming applications. STS is a decen...
Thilmee M. Baduge, Akihito Hiromori, Hirozumi Yama...
— 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,...
Estimating distances in the Internet has been studied in the recent years due to its ability to improve the performance of many applications, e.g., in the peer-topeer realm. One sc...