Capacity of Ad Hoc wireless networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
AMRoute: ad hoc multicast routing protocol
Mobile Networks and Applications
An Overlay Tree Building Control Protocol
NGC '01 Proceedings of the Third International COST264 Workshop on Networked Group Communication
ALMI: an application level multicast infrastructure
USITS'01 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 3
Defending against distance cheating in link-weighted application-layer multicast
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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ALM (Application Level Multicast) is one of the promising ways for resolving multicast incentive problem of non-multicast hosts not implementing multicast routing protocol. ALM protocol is implemented in application layer, which means it is easier to be altered by end users than lower layer protocols. Malicious users would like to get higher position in ALM tree because it can obtain higher throughput and lower delay. They also would not like other hosts to be connected because of forwarding burden will bring them wireless throughput degradation. This paper evaluates performance improvement perceived by a malicious user and shows that surprisingly it can obtain performance improvement only with almost 50% probability. We also investigate the reason why this performance effect and show that link sharing with other ALM hosts in long hops is one of the reasons of performance degradation of malicious users.