Abstract

Resilience in Overlay Multicast Protocols

Stefan Birrer and Fabián E. Bustamante
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60206, USA
{sbirrer,fabianb}@cs.northwestern.edu
Abstract

One of the most important challenges of self-organized, overlay systems for large-scale group communication lies in these systems ability to handle the high degree of transiency inherent to their environment. While a number of resilient protocols and techniques have been recently proposed, achieving high delivery ratios without sacrificing end-to-end latencies or incurring significant additional costs has proven to be a difficult task. In this paper we review some of these approaches and experimentally evaluate their effectiveness by contrasting their performance and associated cost through simulation and wide-area experimentation.

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