Log-based receiver-reliable multicast for distributed interactive simulation
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Mobile multicast (MoM) protocol: multicast support for mobile hosts
MobiCom '97 Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A framework for delivering multicast message in networks with mobile hosts
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue: routing in mobile communications networks
Hierarchical reliable multicast: performance analysis and placement of proxies
COMM '00 Proceedings of NGC 2000 on Networked group communication
MobiCast: a multicast scheme for wireless networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Supporting IP multicast for mobile hosts
Mobile Networks and Applications - ACM/Kluwer special issue on wireless internet and intranet access
A Reliable Multicast Protocol for Distributed Mobile Systems: Design and Evaluation
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Moshe: A group membership service for WANs
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
On the Quality of Service of Failure Detectors
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Multicast Routing Protocol by Multicast Agent in Mobile Networks
ICPP '00 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Parallel Processing
RGB: A Scalable and Reliable Group Membership Protocol in Mobile Internet
ICPP '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing
A Reliable Totally-Ordered Group Multicast Protocol for Mobile Internet
ICPPW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops
Mobile Next-Generation Networks
IEEE MultiMedia
Key management for secure multicast using the ringnet hierarchy
CIS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Computational and Information Science
IMT-2000 core network node systems
IEEE Wireless Communications
IEEE Wireless Communications
RelM: reliable multicast for mobile networks
Computer Communications
Global roaming in next-generation networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Multicasting streaming media to mobile users
IEEE Communications Magazine
Design and implementation of a WLAN/cdma2000 interworking architecture
IEEE Communications Magazine
Reliable multicast transport protocol (RMTP)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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In recent years, the integration of mobile and wireless networks with wired ones has gained in popularity. Many new applications have been brought up and there is increasing demand for enhanced services supporting mobile collaborations. However, many challenging issues, such as scalability and reliability, are very difficult to tackle in such an integrated network environment rather than in the wired network environment. In this paper, we address these issues by proposing a RingNet hierarchy of proxies. This hierarchy is a combination of logical rings and logical trees. Therefore, it takes advantages of the simplicity of logical rings and the scalability of logical trees. More importantly, such a combination makes this hierarchy more reliable than the tree-based hierarchy. Based on this hierarchy, we propose a fault-tolerant group communication protocol in large scale and highly dynamic groups. Both theoretical analysis and simulation studies show that this protocol scales very well when the size of the network becomes large and that it is highly resilient to failures when the node failure probability becomes large. This protocol is especially suitable for those service providers and network operators who have deployed their machines in a hierarchical setting, where each machine can be locally configured to know the information about its sibling and parent machines.