A Comment on "A Total Ordering Multicast Protocol Using Propagation Trees"

  • Authors:

  • Shiu-Pyng Shieh;Fu-Shen Ho

  • Affiliations:

  • National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan;National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

In this paper, we reevaluate the message cost of Jia's multicast mechanism. Our analysis shows that its message cost should be (D + k + 1) instead of (D + 2), where D is the depth of the subtree and k is the number of metagroups containing the destination multicast group.