Journal of the ACM (JACM)
A case for end system multicast (keynote address)
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Dimensioning server access bandwidth and multicast routing in overlay networks
NOSSDAV '01 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Scalable application layer multicast
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Aggregated Multicast with Inter-Group Tree Sharing
NGC '01 Proceedings of the Third International COST264 Workshop on Networked Group Communication
Measuring and modelling the group mmbership in the internet
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Service overlay networks: SLAs, QoS, and bandwidth provisioning
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Measuring ISP topologies with rocketfuel
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Overcast: reliable multicasting with on overlay network
OSDI'00 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Symposium on Operating System Design & Implementation - Volume 4
ALMI: an application level multicast infrastructure
USITS'01 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 3
TOMA: a viable solution for large-scale multicast service support
NETWORKING'05 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP-TC6 international conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems
Multicast group behavior in the Internet's multicast backbone (MBone)
IEEE Communications Magazine
The evolution of multicast: from the MBone to interdomain multicast to Internet2 deployment
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Deployment issues for the IP multicast service and architecture
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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The Multicast Service Overlay Network (MSON) has been recently introduced to address some of the deployment and maintenance problems of IP multicast and application-level multicast. An MSON is essentially a backbone service overlay provisioned by an MSON provider and designed to "multiplex" multiple-user overlays. It consists of service nodes or proxies deployed by the provider. The proxies are strategically deployed to form a backbone overlay and provide multicasting functionalities for supporting many user groups simultaneously. The MSON provider designs the backbone overlay for a large user population and can therefore enjoy large-scale economies and benefits. Since the deployment of an MSON is a capital-intensive investment, it is very imperative to carefully design the MSON so that the provider can make the best revenue out of this investment. In this article, the authors formulate the MSON design problem by taking into account operational costs of the MSON provider. They then explore three subproblems: overlay proxy placement, overlay link selection, and bandwidth dimensioning. For each of these subproblems, the authors present several algorithms and discuss their design trade-offs. By simulations, they investigate the effectiveness of different overlay design algorithms, analyze their impact on multicast performance, and suggest some practical solutions for MSON design.