Hopcount in the NICE Application Layer Multicast Protocol

H Tang; M Janic; X Zhou

Hopcount in the NICE Application Layer Multicast Protocol

H Tang, M Janic, X Zhou

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Abstract

Application layer (AL) multicast protocols emerged, and in large number, as a response to the slow deployment op IP multicast. However, the gain of different AL multicast mechanisms, in terms of resources consumption over unicast, is questionable. In this paper, we investigate the efficiency of AL multicast protocol NICE, in terms of the number of hops a packet traverses on its path toward the destinations. We propose four alternative algorithms for the creation of NICE overlay and compare their efficiency to the efficiency of unicast, IP multicast, and another two previously evaluated AL multicast, and another two previously evaluated AL multicast protocols (MCAN and Scribe). Further, we investigate the influance of the underlying topology awareness on the efficiency. Our analysis has been performed via simulations, as well as via measurements on the PlanetLab network. We show that the NICE structure achieves better results than MCAN and Scribe.

Original language	Undefined/Unknown
Title of host publication	2006 IMACS Multiconference on computational engineering in systems applications
Editors	s.n.
Place of Publication	Beijing
Publisher	Tsinghua University Press
Pages	1020-1026
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	7-302-13922-9
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	conference, 2006 IMACS (Cesa'2006) - Beijing Duration: 4 Oct 2006 → 6 Oct 2006

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Volume	1

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Conference	conference, 2006 IMACS (Cesa'2006)
Period	4/10/06 → 6/10/06

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Conf.proc. > 3 pag

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