OASIS: An Overlay Abstraction for Re-architecting Large Scale Internet Group Services

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Wählisch;Thomas C. Schmidt;Georg Wittenburg

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany 14195 and Department Informatik, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 20099;Department Informatik, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 20099;Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany 14195

  • Venue:
  • FMN '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

There is an increasing economic desire driven by widespread applications like IPTV or conferencing that a next generation Internet will grant transparent group communication service to all its stationary and mobile users. In this paper, we present a generic approach to inter-domain multicast, which is guided by an abstract, DHT-inspired overlay, but may operate on a future Internet architecture. It is based on the assumptions of a globally available end-to-end unicast routing between resolvable locators, taken from a name space that allows for aggregation. Our protocol design accounts for this aggregation, leading to forward-path forwarding along bidirectional shared distribution trees in prefix space. The scheme facilitates multipath multicast transport, offers fault-tolerant routing, arbitrary redundancy for packets and paths and remains mobility agnostic. We present OASIS, its application to IPv6, and evaluate signaling costs analytically based on its k -ary tree structure.