Cooperative control of multicast-based streaming on-demand systems

  • Authors:
  • Giancarlo Fortino;Carlo Mastroianni;Wilma Russo

  • Affiliations:
  • DEIS, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci, 87036 Rende, CS, Italy;ICAR, Italian National Research Council, Via P. Bucci, 87036 Rende, CS, Italy;DEIS, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci, 87036 Rende, CS, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue: Parallel computing technologies
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper proposes the COoperative COntrol Protocol (COCOP), which enables a synchronous cooperative group to interactively control an on-demand server which multicasts time-dependent data streams. Multicast-based streaming on-demand systems such as video on-demand systems, web casters, and networks of real/virtual sensors can beneficially exploit COCOP to provide cooperative control sessions as a mainstream service. In order to improve efficiency and scalability, the protocol relies on a reliable multicast transport layer which can be based either on the IP-multicast or on Application Layer Multicast. Performance evaluation of COCOP was carried out on multicast trees by using a discrete-event simulation framework.