Lightweight network support for scalable end-to-end services
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A Flexible Concast-Based Grouping Service
IWAN '02 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 4th International Working Conference on Active Networks
Designing Service-Specific Execution Environments
IWAN '02 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 4th International Working Conference on Active Networks
PROMISE: peer-to-peer media streaming using CollectCast
MULTIMEDIA '03 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international conference on Multimedia
Reflections on network architecture: an active networking perspective
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Scalable Network Management Using Lightweight Programmable Network Services
Journal of Network and Systems Management
On information hiding and network management
Proceedings of the 2006 SIGCOMM workshop on Internet network management
Building layered active services
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Active networks
A flexible concast-based grouping service
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Active networks
Incremental deployment strategies for router-assisted reliable multicast
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
San Fermín: aggregating large data sets using a binomial swap forest
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Experiences on enhancing data collection in large networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Secure, customizable, many-to-one communication
IWAN'04 Proceedings of the 6th IFIP TC6 international working conference on Active networks
Simple active mechanisms for measuring and monitoring service level topologies
IWAN'04 Proceedings of the 6th IFIP TC6 international working conference on Active networks
Towards understanding pure publish/subscribe cryptographic protocols
Security'08 Proceedings of the 16th International conference on Security protocols
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Concast is a network layer service that provides many-to-one channels: multiple sources send messages toward one destination, and the network delivers a single “merged” copy to that destination. As we have defined it, the service is generic but the relationship between the sent and received messages can be customized for particular applications. We describe the concast service and show how it can be implemented in a back ward-compatible manner in the Internet. We describe its use to solve a problem that has eluded scalable end-system-only solutions: collecting feedback in multicast applications. Our preliminary analysis of concasting effectiveness shows that it provides significant benefits, even with partial deployment. We argue that concast has the characteristics needed for a programmable service to be widely accepted and deployed in the Internet