Epidemic algorithms for replicated database maintenance
PODC '87 Proceedings of the sixth annual ACM Symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Providing high availability using lazy replication
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic (extended version)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
What are the implications of long-range dependence for VBR-video traffic engineering?
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
SIGCOMM '97 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
End-to-end Internet packet dynamics
SIGCOMM '97 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Proof of a fundamental result in self-similar traffic modeling
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
The changing nature of network traffic: scaling phenomena
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Macroscopic models for long-range dependent network traffic
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
On the relationship between file sizes, transport protocols, and self-similar network traffic
ICNP '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '96)
Scalability, Throughput Stability and Efficient Buffering in Reliable Multicast Protocols
Scalability, Throughput Stability and Efficient Buffering in Reliable Multicast Protocols
Modeling multiple IP traffic streams with rate limits
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A Long-Range Dependent Workload Model for Packet Data Traffic
Mathematics of Operations Research
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (2nd Edition)
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (2nd Edition)
Drinking from the firehose: multicast USENET news
WTEC'94 Proceedings of the USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference on USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference
A wavelet-based joint estimator of the parameters of long-range dependence
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Communications Magazine
Reliable multicast transport protocol (RMTP)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
The PGM reliable multicast protocol
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Transport level multicast protocols providing reliability and scalability properties are certainly essential building blocks for several distributed group applications. We consider the effect of reliable multicast transport mechanisms on traffic characteristics and hence network performance. Although self-similarity property of unicast traffic, in particular TCP, has been analyzed extensively, multicast traffic has not been incorporated from this perspective. In this study, we focus on traffic characterization of transport level reliable multicasting. In particular, we concentrate on two scalable and reliable multicast protocols as case studies, namely Bimodal Multicast and Scalable Reliable Multicast (SRM), and analyze the traffic generated by them. Our study consists of a complete simulation analysis supported by theoretical work, which shows that self-similarity is protocol dependent. We demonstrate that the Markovian character of Bimodal Multicast's epidemic loss recovery distinguishes an inherently superior protocol. It discretely feeds well-behaved traffic and copes with the existing self-similarity. On the other hand, the feedback controlled loss recovery mechanism of SRM triggers self-similarity. Drawing upon both theoretical and simulation analysis, our results substantiate that transport level can induce long-range dependence even in the absence of application/user level causes.