In light of the slow deployment of IP Multicast technology on the global Internet and the
explosive popularity of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications, there has been a flurry …

Application-layer multicast supports group applications without the need for a network-layer
multicast protocol. Here, applications arrange themselves in a logical overlay network and …

As expectations for the Internet to support multimedia applications grow, new services need
to be deployed. One of them is the group communication service for one-to-many or many-to …

Internet broadcasting-the simultaneous distribution of live content streams to a large
audience-has a number of interesting applications ranging from real-time broadcasts of …

Application level multicast schemes have traditionally been evaluated with respect to the
efficiency penalties incurred in migrating the multicast functionality from the network layer to …

Though the merits of IP-based multicast are undeniable, the deployment of IP multicast has
met many difficulties. In the past several years, lots of research works have been done on …

The high bandwidth required by live streaming video greatly limits the number of clients that
can be served by a source using unicast. An efficient solution is IP-multicast, but it suffers …

Abstract The task of Application Layer Multicast (ALM) routing is to establish a proper routing
tree on application layer network, which transmits data packages from a source to multiple …

Although context could be exploited to improve performance, elasticity and adaptation in
most distributed systems that adopt the publish/subscribe (P/S) communication model, only …

Application layer multicast (ALM) is highly expected to replace IP multicasting as the new
technological choice for content delivery. Depending on the streaming application, ALM …