Multicast routing in a datagram internetwork
Multicast routing in a datagram internetwork
Enabling conferencing applications on the internet using an overlay muilticast architecture
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
mSTAR: Enabling Collaborative Applications on the Internet
IEEE Internet Computing
A Gossip-Based Reliable Multicast for Large-Scale High-Throughput Applications
DSN '00 Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (formerly FTCS-30 and DCCA-8)
Bamba: audio and video streaming over the internet
IBM Journal of Research and Development - Papers on mustimedia systems
Lightweight application level multicast tunnelling using mTunnel
Computer Communications
Fast scheduling on P2P streaming overlay
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Ubiquitous information management and communication
Short Survey: A survey of application level multicast techniques
Computer Communications
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Conventional distribution of real-time multimedia data uses multicasting or a series of relays and tunnels for unicast networks. The former is a capability not popularly enabled by a lot of networks while the static relays cannot readily adapt to changing network conditions and are potential bottlenecks in a heavily accessed system. This paper proposes a dynamic overlay framework for streaming multimedia data over heterogeneous networks. The overlay comprises a self-improving tree which is built from client relays on the fly and a lightweight server to manage the tree. The overlay provides a better QoS than conventional relays as it monitors the network and re-configures the tree to adapt to changing environments. Clients can switch parents for better QoS. The robustness of the tree is improved by using a spiral mechanism and failure of the lightweight server will not impact the data distribution functionality of the existing tree.