Overlay Multicast — Transiency and Performance

Overlay-based multicast has been proposed as a key alternative for large-scale group communication. There is ample motivation for such an approach, as it delivers the scalability advantages of multicast while avoiding the deployment issues of a network-level solution. As multicast functionality is pushed to autonomous, unpredictable end systems, however, significant performance loss can result from their higher degree of transiency when compared to routers.

Our work explores alternative system designs and techniques for delivering high application performance at relatively low costs and under high degree of transiency, evaluating their performance and associated cost through simulation and wide-area experimentation.

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Stefan Birrer, Fabián E. Bustamante

A Comparison of Resilient Overlay Multicast Approaches Journal Article

n IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) -- Special Issue on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems, 25 (9), 2007.

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Stefan Birrer, Fabián E. Bustamante

Resilience in Overlay Multicast Protocols Journal Article

In Proc. of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2006.

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Stefan Birrer, Fabián E. Bustamante

The Feasibility of DHT-based Streaming Multicast Journal Article

In Proc. of the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2005.

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Stefan Birrer, Fabián E. Bustamante

Magellan: Performance-based, Cooperative Multicast Journal Article

In Proc. of the Tenth International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, 2005.

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Stefan Birrer, Fabián E. Bustamante, Dong Lu, Peter Dinda, Yi Qiao

FatNemo: Multi-Source Multicast Overlay Fat-Tree Journal Article

Poster in Proc. of the Second Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation, 2005.

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Stefan Birrer, Fabián E. Bustamante

Reef: Efficiently designing and evaluating overlay algorithms Technical Report

Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University (NWU-CS-05-14), 2005.

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Stefan Birrer, Fabián E. Bustamante

Resilient Peer-to-Peer Multicast from the Ground Up Journal Article

In Proc. of the IEEE Network Computing and Applications - Workshop on Adaptive Grid Computing, 2004.

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Stefan Birrer, Fabián E. Bustamante

Nemo: Resilient Peer-to-Peer Multicast without the Cost Technical Report

Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University (NWU-CS-04-36), 2004.

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Stefan Birrer, Fabián E. Bustamante

Resilient Peer-to-Peer Multicast from the Ground Up Technical Report

Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University (NWU-CS-03-22), 2003.

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