Overcast is an application-level multicasting system that can be incrementally deployed using today's Internet infrastructure. These properties stem from Overcast's impl...
John Jannotti, David K. Gifford, Kirk L. Johnson, ...
IP-multicast is a bandwidth efficient transmission mechanism for group communications. Reliability in IP-multicast, however, poses a set of significant challenges. To address the ...
Application Level Multicast is a promising approach to overcome the deployment problems of IP level multicast by establishing delivery trees using overlay links among end systems....
Although many multicast communication protocols have been recommended at IETF, reliable multicast communications currently rely on programs built at the application layer, e.g., m...
Overlay routing has been proposed to enhance the reliability and performance of IP networks, since it can bypass congestion and transient outages by forwarding traffic through one ...