Resilient multicast using overlays

TitleResilient multicast using overlays
Publication TypeJournal Articles
Year of Publication2006
AuthorsBanerjee S, Lee S, Bhattacharjee B, Srinivasan A
JournalIEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Volume14
Issue2
Pagination237 - 248
Date Published2006/04//
ISBN Number1063-6692
Keywordsapplication-layer multicast protocols, Computer science, Data communication, Delay, Internet, Internet-like topologies, IP networks, loss recovery technique, Multicast, multicast data recovery scheme, Multicast protocols, Network topology, NETWORKS, overlays, Performance loss, probabilistic forwarding, probabilistic resilient multicast, Protocols, Resilience, Streaming media, telecommunication network topology, Terminology
Abstract

We introduce Probabilistic Resilient Multicast (PRM): a multicast data recovery scheme that improves data delivery ratios while maintaining low end-to-end latencies. PRM has both a proactive and a reactive components; in this paper we describe how PRM can be used to improve the performance of application-layer multicast protocols especially when there are high packet losses and host failures. Through detailed analysis in this paper, we show that this loss recovery technique has efficient scaling properties-the overheads at each overlay node asymptotically decrease to zero with increasing group sizes. As a detailed case study, we show how PRM can be applied to the NICE application-layer multicast protocol. We present detailed simulations of the PRM-enhanced NICE protocol for 10 000 node Internet-like topologies. Simulations show that PRM achieves a high delivery ratio (>97%) with a low latency bound (600 ms) for environments with high end-to-end network losses (1%-5%) and high topology change rates (5 changes per second) while incurring very low overheads (<5%).

DOI10.1109/TNET.2006.872579