异构网络环境下的高稳定性应用层组播方案

针对异构网络环境中由于节点转发能力异构而引起的应用层组播稳定性不足的问题,对异构overlay拓扑建模进行了研究,分析出组播稳定所需满足的约束条件,提出了一种基于gossip协作机制的应用层组播方案。在所提机制能够均衡节点间负载,缓解能力弱的节点负载过重的问题;如果组播过程中有成员节点动态离开或转发能力不足,其他节点相互协作共同分担其负载以维持组播的稳定性。随后的链路强度分析表明,与传统的应用层组播方案相比,本方案能够大幅降低拓扑的平均链路强度,提高组播系统的稳定性。最后通过OMNeT 仿真平台对本方案进行仿真验证,实验证明在动态的异构overlay拓扑下,本方案能够显著提高数据分发成功率,保证组播的连续性和稳定性。     

应用层多播协议研究

应用层多播不需要对现有网络基础结构做任何修改,不需要路由器支持,在虚拟叠加网的基础上由参与多播的端系统完成包的复制、路由计算、转发等功能,从而能方便、灵活地在因特网上进行部署。本文将按照树优先、网优先和层次结构三种应用层多播叠加网拓扑构建方式对应用层多播协议进行讨论。     

多媒体会议系统集成框架的研究和实现

为了解决各种异构多媒体会议系统之间难以互通的问题，结合基于应用层组播技术与代理机制设计和实现了能够让各个异构多媒体会议系统相互协同的集成框架。应用代理机制把各个异构系统封装成可以相互通信的协同群组，在Internet物理拓扑基础上部署一个连接各个协同群组的称为覆盖网的虚拟拓扑结构，以此为基础设施在各协同组之间构建数据组播树，实现数据的高效分发，提供各种协同服务和异构接入服务把各种异构系统封装成相互可以通信的协同工作群组。     

Island Multicast: Combining IP Multicast With Overlay Data Distribution

Traditional overlay protocols use unicast connections to form delivery trees. While it can achieve global multicast across the Internet, it is not as efficient as IP multicast. In this paper, we integrate IP multicast into overlay data distribution to improve delivery efficiency. We investigate island multicast where unicast connections are used to connect multicast domains and IP multicast is used within multicast domains. We first explore a centralized island multicast protocol (termed CIM), which relies on a central server to construct a delivery tree. We then study a distributed protocol (termed DIM), where hosts can distributedly join islands and form a delivery tree. We study the key issues in both protocols. We also discuss how to apply these protocols to media streaming applications. We have evaluated both protocols on Internet-like topologies. We have also implemented a prototype for CIM and tested it on PlanetLab. The results show that our approaches can significantly im prove network performance as compared to pure overlay protocols. Our study shows that it is important to consider local multicast capability when designing overlay protocols.     

A self-similar super-peer overlay construction scheme for super large-scale P2P applications

Unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks with two-layer hierarchy, comprising an upper layer of super-peers and an underlying layer of ordinary peers, are used to improve the performance of large-scale P2P applications like content distribution and storage. In order to deal with continuous growth of participating peers, a scalable and efficient super-peer overlay topology is essential. However, there is relatively little research conducted on constructing such super-peer overlay topology. In the existed solutions, the number of connections required to be maintained by a super-peer is in direct proportion to the total number of super-peers. For super large-scale P2P applications, i.e. the number of participating peer is over 1,000,000, these solutions are not scalable and impractical. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a scalable hierarchical unstructured P2P system in which a self-similar square network graph (SSNG) is proposed to construct and maintain the super-peer overlay topology adaptively. The SSNG topology is a constant-degree topology in which each node maintains a constant number of neighbor nodes. Moreover, a simple and efficient message forwarding algorithm is presented to ensure each super-peer to receive just one flooding message. The analytical results showed that the proposed SSNG-based overlay is more scalable and efficient than the perfect difference graph (PDG)-based overlay proposed in the literature.     

Cored-Based Tree with Forwarding Regions (CBT-FR); A Protocol for Reliable Multicasting in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

In this paper we propose a new protocol for reliable multicast in a multihop mobile radio network. The protocol is reliable, i.e., it guarantees message delivery to all multicast nodes even when the topology of the network changes during multicasting. The proposed protocol uses a core-based shared tree. The multicast tree may get fragmented due to node movements. The notion of a forwarding region is introduced which is used to glue together fragments of multicast trees. The gluing process involves flooding the forwarding region of only those nodes that witness topology change due to node mobility. Delivery of multicast messages to mobile nodes is expedited through (i) pushing the message by witness nodes in their forwarding regions and (ii) pulling messages by a mobile node during (re)joining process. Hence, the protocol conserves network bandwidth by using a combination of the push–pull approach and by restricting flooding only to the essential parts of the network that are affected by topology change.  We develop a theoretical model to compute the probability of packet loss (as a function of the mobility rate) for our proposed scheme compared to the the core-based tree protocol (CBT); we also evaluate the effectiveness of forwarding regions as compared to traditional flooding. Our analysis shows that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms CBT.     

OverSim:可扩展的应用层组播网络仿真框架

应用层组播作为IP组播的一个可行替代方案日益成为Internet应用研究的一个热点。如何仿真大规模、动态的应用层组播覆盖网络已经成为应用层组播方案研究人员面临的一个共同问题。本文在分析当前几款主流的覆盖网络仿真软件的基础上,提出了采用基于OMNet++网络仿真环境的Over-Sim覆盖网络仿真框架来模拟大规模、动态的应用层组播覆盖网络,并在此基础上研究分析可扩展的应用层组播方案。最后我们采用OverSim实现了对应用层组播协议Scribe的仿真并对结果进行了分析。仿真结果表明,OverSim可以在有限的硬件环境下,稳定地仿真高达上万个节点的大规模动态覆盖网络,仿真过程中内存消耗较低,且与覆盖网络规模呈线性关系。     

Location awareness in unstructured peer-to-peer systems

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has emerged as a popular model aiming at further utilizing Internet information and resources. However, the mechanism of peers randomly choosing logical neighbors without any knowledge about underlying physical topology can cause a serious topology mismatch between the P2P overlay network and the physical underlying network. The topology mismatch problem brings great stress in the Internet infrastructure. It greatly limits the performance gain from various search or routing techniques. Meanwhile, due to the inefficient overlay topology, the flooding-based search mechanisms cause a large volume of unnecessary traffic. Aiming at alleviating the mismatching problem and reducing the unnecessary traffic, we propose a location-aware topology matching (LTM) technique. LTM builds an efficient overlay by disconnecting slow connections and choosing physically closer nodes as logical neighbors while still retaining the search scope and reducing response time for queries. LTM is scalable and completely distributed in the sense that it does not require any global knowledge of the whole overlay network. The effectiveness of LTM is demonstrated through simulation studies.     

基于地址转发表的交换式以太网拓扑发现方法

提出一种称为连接推理技术(connections reasoning technique)的谓词逻辑推理方法推导节点间的连接关系.该方法把交换机地址转发表翻译为一组谓词公式,把拓扑发现问题转变为一个谓词逻辑推理的数学问题,借助数学工具对拓扑发现问题进行研究.基于连接推理技术提出了一种拓扑发现算法,与现有方法相比:(1)该方法能够更充分地利用不完整地址转发表的冗余信息,只需一小部分转发表就可以把整个网络拓扑构建出来;(2)该方法完全适用于多子网交换域的拓扑发现.此外,还提出了一种开销很小的动态网络拓扑发现方法.该算法成功地应用在社区宽带综合业务网络管理系统中.     

Fast and proximity-aware multi-source overlay multicast under heterogeneous environment

Overlay multicast has been considered as one of the most important developments for the next generation Internet infrastructure. In this paper, we consider overlay multicast in the scenarios where any participant node is a potential data source. Existing multicast algorithms for single-source always require a long time to deliver messages or have high maintenance overhead when multiple data sources are allowed. There are other algorithms that are designed for multi-source scenarios. But they consume too much network resources and have a long convergence time because of proximity ignorance. To address the issues, we present FPCast, which leverages node heterogeneity and proximity information at the same time. Physically close nodes are grouped into clusters and each cluster selects a powerful, stable node as its rendezvous point. The rendezvous nodes form a DHT-based structure. Data messages are replicated and forwarded along implicit, source specific, and heterogeneity-aware multicast trees. We further reduce the delivery delay by introducing probabilistic forwarding scheme. We show the average delivery path length converges to O(logn) automatically (n is the number of nodes in the overlay). The simulation results demonstrate the superiority of our algorithm in terms of message delivery time and network resource consumption, in comparison with the previous randomized algorithms. The algorithm is also resilient to node failures.     

基于免疫算法的分层覆盖组播技术研究

为了克服传统的实时流媒体数据单播I、P组播等传输方式浪费网络带宽,甚至导致服务器过载的缺陷,提出了基于免疫算法的覆盖网络应用层组播树的构建方法。该方法以节点间网络延迟和节点的度作为约束条件,采用免疫算法划分组播岛、找出使整个系统"花费"最小的组播服务节点,实现了组播服务节点的全局最优选取。仿真结果表明,该方法有效可行,较采用传统的遗传算法具有更快的收敛速度和更高的搜索能力。     

Enhancing end-to-end availability and performance via topology-aware overlay networks

This paper proposes a novel overlay architecture to improve availability and performance of end-to-end communication over the Internet. Connectivity and network availability are becoming business-critical resources as the Internet is increasingly utilized as a business necessity. For example, traditional voice and military systems are turning into IP-based network applications. With these applications, even short-lived failures of the Internet infrastructure can generate significant losses.To satisfy these needs, the concept of overlay networks has been widely discussed. However, in the previous studies of overlay networks, a measurable number of path outages were still unavoidable even with use of such overlay networks. We believe that an overlay network’s ability to quickly recover from path outages and congestion is limited unless we ensure path independence at the IP layer. Hence, we develop a simple but effective overlay architecture increasing path independence without degrading performance. The proposed overlay architecture enhances prior studies in the following ways: (1) we deploy overlay nodes considering topology and latency information inside an ISP and also across ISP boundaries; (2) we use a source-based single-hop overlay routing combined with the above topology-aware node deployment; (3) we increase the usage of multi-homing environment at endhosts. In this framework, we develop measurement-based heuristics using extensive data collection from 232 points in 10 ISPs, and 100 PlanetLab nodes. We also validate the proposed framework using real Internet outages to show that our architecture is able to provide a significant amount of resilience to real-world failures.     

Topology Design of Network-Coding-Based Multicast Networks

It is anticipated that a large amount of multicast traffic needs to be supported in future communication networks. The network coding technique proposed recently is promising for establishing multicast connections with a significantly lower bandwidth requirement than that of traditional Steiner-tree-based multicast connections. How to design multicast network topologies with the consideration of efficiently supporting multicast by the network coding technique becomes an important issue now. It is notable, however, that the conventional algorithms for network topology design are mainly unicast-oriented, and they cannot be adopted directly for the efficient topology design of network-coding-based multicast networks by simply treating each multicast as multiple unicasts. In this paper, we consider for the first time the novel topology design problem of network-coding-based multicast networks. Based on the characteristics of multicast and network coding, we first formulate this problem as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem, which is NP-hard, and then propose two heuristic algorithms for it. The effectiveness of our heuristics is verified through simulation and comparison with the exhaustive search method. We demonstrate in this paper that, in the topology design of multicast networks, adopting the network coding technique to support multicast transmissions can significantly reduce the overall topology cost as compared to conventional unicast-oriented design and the Steiner-tree-based design.     

Communication Models for a Free-Space Optical Cross-Connect Switch

We design and analyze communication algorithms for an optical switch based on the electroholographic effect, that provides capabilities for configuration changes and a limited multicast. As configuration changes incur a high overhead, we suggest the use of a high-speed forwarding unit as part of the network interface. We develop broadcast algorithms that trade off the number of configuration changes and forwarding operations in order to achieve the minimal completion time. For general point- to-point communication, we use the limited multicast to create a spanning topology along which messages can be forwarded. This requires care to avoid collisions, but is still preferable to using configuration changes if the topology is rich enough but still has a low degree.     

Buffer-assisted on-demand multicast for VOD applications

Multicast communications is widely used by streaming video applications to reduce both server load and network bandwidth. However, receivers in a multicast group must access the multicast stream simultaneously, and this restriction on synchronous access diminishes the benefit of multicast because users in a video-on-demand service usually issue requests asynchronously, i.e., at anytime. In this paper, we not only formulate this streaming problem but also propose a new multicast infrastructure, called buffer-assisted on-demand multicast, to allow receivers accessing a multicast stream asynchronously. A timing control mechanism is integrated on intermediate routing nodes (e.g., routers, proxies, or peer nodes in a peer-to-peer network) to branch time-variant multicast sub-streams to corresponding receivers. Besides, an optimal routing path and the corresponding buffer allocations for each request must be carefully determined to maximize the throughput of the multicast stream. We prove that the time complexity to solve this routing problem over general graph networks is NP-complete, and then propose a routing algorithm for overlay networks to minimize server load. Simulation results demonstrate that buffer-assisted on-demand multicast outperforms many popular streaming methods.     

基于局部邻居节点和链路权值的改进AODV路由协议

在节点高速移动的Ad Hoc网络环境中,广播风暴对网络性能的影响尤为重要,且网络拓扑结构的频繁变化极易导致路由中断.传统的AODV路由协议在路由发现阶段直接使用广播转发RREQ（路由请求分组）机制,容易导致广播风暴降低网络性能;同时,协议选择跳数最少的路径作为路由,没有考虑到节点的快速移动导致路由频繁失效,因此无法适应节点高速移动的网络环境.针对上面存在的问题,提出一种对AODV进行改进的协议.该协议在路由发起过程中,基于局部邻居节点数量计算动态转发概率;选择路由时,利用跨层思想,结合网络节点移动速度提出链路权值,依据链路权值选择路由路径.NS2仿真结果表明：该改进协议提高了数据包的投递率,缩短了端到端的传输时延,能够更好地适应节点高速移动的网络环境.     

基于邻近原则的应用层组播实验研究*

提出了一个基于邻近原则的应用层组播系统,其覆盖网络由参与节点求得自身网络坐标之后,根据网络坐标基于邻近原则聚类形成。通过基于网络测量数据的仿真和PlanetLab真实网络环境中的实际测试,证明了基于该覆盖网络结构的应用层组播系统在性能指标上优于当前普遍应用的基于其他结构的覆盖网络的系统。在构建覆盖网络过程中考虑节点在网络中的位置分布等因素将能够提高基于该覆盖网络的应用层组播性能。     

6LoWPAN网络组播通信方案的研究与设计

随着无线传感器网络(WSN)对新应用的需求不断增加,基于IEEE 802.15.4实现IPv6通信的低速无线个人局域网标准6LoWPAN是将WSN接入Internet实现全IP通信的理想解决方案.在此提出了一种基于6LoWPAN网络的组播通信方案,通过自组建M AC地址的方式,对现有的6LoWPAN网络增加了对组播通信的支持,设计完成了6LoWPAN网络组播通信方案,降低了组播通信下组内节点接收网关数据的时延,以及组外节点对无关数据的处理消耗.结果分析表明,该组播通信方案下的节点通信时延是单播通信下节点通信时延的15.13％,组外节点数据处理效率比广播通信下的组外节点提高了39.02％.该通信方案能够获得预期功能和性能,6LoWPAN节点能够动态加入和退出组播组,接收组播组内信息.     

On the effectiveness of secure overlay forwarding systems under intelligent distributed DoS attacks

In the framework of a set of clients communicating with a critical server over the Internet, a recent approach to protect communication from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks involves the usage of overlay systems. SOS, MAYDAY, and I3 are such systems. The architecture of these systems consists of a set of overlay nodes that serve as intermediate forwarders between the clients and the server, thereby controlling access to the server. Although such systems perform well under random DDoS attacks, it is questionable whether they are resilient to intelligent DDoS attacks which aim to infer architectures of the systems to launch more efficient attacks. In this paper, we define several intelligent DDoS attack models and develop analytical/simulation approaches to study the impacts of architectural design features of such, overlay systems on the system performance in terms of path availability between clients and the server under attacks. Our data clearly demonstrate that the system performance is indeed sensitive to the architectural features and the different features interact with each other to impact overall system performance under intelligent DDoS attacks. Our observations provide important guidelines in the design of such secure overlay forwarding systems.