Network-Aware Overlay Multicast for Large Data Dissemination

Joonbok LEE  Kilnam CHON  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E92-B   No.6   pp.2263-2266
Publication Date: 2009/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E92.B.2263
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
overlay multicast,  steiner tree,  large data,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we propose a network-aware overlay multicast (NAOM) technique for large data dissemination in a well-managed overlay network. To improve the throughput, NAOM utilizes forward-only hosts; these hosts participate in the overlay network but are not members of the multicast. With the inclusion of the forward-only hosts, data slices can detour bottleneck links and more resources can be used to build efficient multicast trees. Large data are divided into fixed-size slices, and the slices are delivered simultaneously to multicast receivers along the multiple multicast trees. We model the problem of building efficient multicast trees with the inclusion of forward-only hosts. The problem is an NP-hard problem, and we introduce a polynomial time heuristic algorithm. Furthermore, we propose a dynamic scheduling scheme for the transfer of data along the evaluated multicast trees. Our experimental results in a real network environment show an improvement of the throughput but at the cost of additional resource consumption of forward-only nodes.