应用层组播稳定性提高技术综述

互联网上组通信应用的日益普及和传统IP组播发展面临的困境导致应用层组播逐步受到广泛关注.将组播功能从路由器迁移到主机能够有效解决许多与IP组播相关的问题,但同时也带来一些新的挑战,如应用层组播稳定性问题.文中概述了应用层组播的数据传输模型、组播树构造算法和协议性能评价标准,阐述了应用层组播稳定性问题产生的原因,提出了衡量应用层组播稳定性的标准,分析了影响应用层组播稳定性的因素,根据影响因素将应用层组播稳定性提高技术分类为降低节点离开事件发生频率的方法、缩小节点离开事件影响范围的方法以及缩短节点离开事件发生后组播树恢复时间的方法,并介绍了各种应用层组播稳定性提高技术,展望了该领域未来的研究工作.

A Survey of the Research on ALM Stability Enhancement

Due to the increasing popularity of group communication applications in the Internet and the difficulties in deployment of IP multicast,Application Layer Multicast(ALM) begins to attract wide attention.The migration of multicast functions from routers to hosts has the potential to address most problems associated with IP multicast,but also faces with new challenges,such as the stability problem.In this paper,the authors firstly outline the data transmission model,multicast tree construction algorithms and p...