Research Article
Supporting IP Multicast Streaming Using Overlay Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1577222.1577289, author={Marc Brogle and Dragan Milic and Torsten Braun}, title={Supporting IP Multicast Streaming Using Overlay Networks}, proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={QSHINE}, year={2007}, month={8}, keywords={Transparent overlay multicast performance peer-to-peer multimedia streaming performance}, doi={10.1145/1577222.1577289} }- Marc Brogle
Dragan Milic
Torsten Braun
Year: 2007
Supporting IP Multicast Streaming Using Overlay Networks
QSHINE
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1577222.1577289
Abstract
In this paper we present our solution for providing IP Mul- ticast on end systems in the Internet. The goal of the pro- posed solution is not to replace IP Multicast, but to provide an IP Multicast interface to applications on end systems in the current Internet environment, where IP Multicast is not available. Our solution, called Multicast Middleware, is a software, which is based on using Application Level Multi- cast (ALM) for transporting IP Multicast traffc. The use of the Multicast Middleware is transparent for applications on end systems, since our Multicast Middleware uses a vir- tual network interface to intercept native IP Multicast com- munication. In this paper we also present a performance evaluation of our Multicast Middleware. The results of this evaluation show that our Multicast Middleware is able to provide high bandwidth throughput to applications. This makes our Multicast Middleware a viable solution for sup- porting multimedia streaming services, etc.