Efficient Internet Multicast Routing Using Anycast Path Selection

A novel efficient and dynamic multicast routing protocol based on anycast routing techniques is presented. The contributions of the protocol differ from well-known shared-tree systems in two aspects: (1) Off-tree anycast routing: The nodes in the shared tree are formed into a virtual anycast group and multicast sources use anycast routing to select a better path from the source to one router in the group to achieve short delay and fault-tolerance. (2) On-tree dynamic routing: The shared-tree approach is extended with capability of alternative path selections. If a node becomes absent from the shared tree, some predefined backup path(s) is (are) used to bypass the node and enable dynamic multicast routing to continue. The protocol requires only the routers near the faulty node to be reconfigured, thus reducing the runtime overhead as compared with global reconfiguration. The simulation data demonstrates the efficiency of our routing protocol.     

一种基于内容的双向共享组播路由协议

针对组播协议在大规模分布式交互系统应用中面临的可扩展性问题,提出一种基于内容的双向共享组播路由协议CBSMRP(content-based bi-directional shared multicast routing protocol).该协议结合运用了主动路由思想和基于内容的发布-订购模式,在基于CBT(core-based tree)结构的双向共享组播树中,根据数据包的内容实现主动路由和双向过滤,不仅解决了组播地址的维护和分配等问题,而且能够有效地减轻系统的网络负载.仿真实验及实际应用表明,该协议具有较好的扩展性,能够满足大规模分布式交互系统的网络通信要求.     

一个新的可伸缩QoS组播路由协议

提出了一个有效的QoS组播路由机制，基本思想是使路由器只存储其两层邻居节点的可达性信息以及链路的QoS状态信息，以减少路由器存储开销，提高协议的规模伸缩性(Scalability)．协议采用受限的泛播技术，构造了一个接受节点发起的、采用多路径技术的，分布式路由算法．文章描述了协议的数据结构、组播树的构造算法，分析了协议的性能并给出了模拟实验结果，表明基于受限泛播技术的组播路由协议具有节点存储开销小、呼叫接收成功率高、易于实现等特点。     

Performance evaluation of a mesh-evolving quality-of-service-aware multicast routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

The tremendous amount of multimedia applications running across the wireless communication medium makes quality of service (QoS) a fundamental requirement for mobile ad hoc networks. However, it is not easy to incorporate QoS into these networks. Moreover, the growing number of group-oriented applications also necessitates the efficient utilisation of network resources. The multicast model is a promising technique which can achieve this efficiency by facilitating the inherent broadcast capability of the wireless medium. The mesh-evolving ad hoc QoS multicast (MAQM) routing protocol is developed to address the resource efficiency and QoS problems with one, integrated solution. MAQM achieves multicast efficiency by tracking the availability of resources for each node within its neighbourhood. The QoS status is monitored continuously and announced periodically to the extent of QoS provision. Using these features, MAQM nodes can make their decisions on joining a new multicast session based on the sustainability of their perceived QoS. MAQM also evolves the initial multicast tree into a mesh during the course of an ongoing session to achieve a more robust network topology. Thus, MAQM integrates the concept of QoS-awareness into multicast routing in mobile ad hoc networks. Since ad hoc networks require the protocol control overhead to be as small as possible, we analyse the multicast session establishment process of MAQM to see its impact on the protocol performance in terms of system control overhead. We also evaluate the performance of MAQM through computer simulations using various qualitative and quantitative criteria. The simulation results validate our mathematical analysis of the control overhead and show that MAQM significantly improves multicast efficiency through its QoS-aware admission and routing decisions with an acceptably small overhead. Thus, MAQM shows that QoS is not only essential for, but also applicable to mobile ad hoc networks.     

A distributed QoS-Aware multicast routing protocol

This paper discusses the multicast routing problem with QoS constraints, and describes a network model that is suitable to research such routing problem. The paper mainly presents a distributed QoS-aware multicast routing protocol (QMRP). The QMRP can operate on top of the unicast routing protocol. It only requires the local state information of the link (or the node), but does not require any global network state to be maintained. The QMRP can significantly reduce the overhead for constructing a multicast tree with QoS constraints. In QMRP, a multicast group member can join or leave the multicast session dynamically, which can support dynamic membership. The protocol can search multiple feasible tree branches, and select the optimal or near-optimal branch for connecting the new receiver to the multicast tree if it exists. In this paper, the proof of correctness and complexity analysis of the QMRP are given, and the performance measures of the protocol are evaluated using simulation. The study shows that QMRP provides an available approach to multicast routing with QoS constraints and dynamic membership support.Received: 3 April 2003, Published online: 2 September 2003     

胖树拓扑中高效实用的定制多播路由算法

在高性能计算领域,多播路由算法对硬件集合操作的性能具有至关重要的影响.随着系统规模的不断扩大,多播组的个数急剧增加,可能会超过硬件支持的多播表条目数,而现有的多播路由算法要么没有给出解决方案,要么存在时间开销大、多播路由经常变化等问题.为此,首先对胖树中的无冲突多播生成树数量进行了量化研究,并以此为基础提出了一种适用于胖树的高效实用的定制多播路由算法(customized multicast routing for limited multicast forwarding table size, C-MR4LMS).C-MR4LMS在构建多播树时,根据多播组的MGID(multicast global identification)静态地将多播组映射到1棵生成树中,从而快速完成多播树的构建;而在合并多播树时,仅需合并使用同一生成树的多播组,且不会改变被合并多播组的路由.然后提出了2种减少多播树冲突的方法：一是分层的MGID分配策略,以避免出现同一终端节点使用同一颜色加入多个多播组的情况;二是相互无干扰的作业节点分配策略,保证2个作业的多播组互不干扰.最后,在ibsim模拟器及神威E级原型机上对C-MR4LMS进行了测试,该多播路由算法计算多播路由的时间比现有的多播路由算法有了显著下降,最大下降了94%.     

分布式QoS多播路由协议

研讨了具有QoS约束的分布式多播路由问题。描述了一种适应于QoS多播路由的网络模型,提出了一种分布式QoS多播路由协议（DQMRP）。DQMRP只要求网络链路（或节点）的局部状态信息,不需要维护全局状态信息。DQMRP可有效地减少构造一棵多播树的开销,多播组成员能动态地加入,退出一个多播会晤,且不干扰现有的多播树。给出了DQMRP的正确性证明。仿真实验结果表明：DQMRP具有较低的控制信息开销和节点加入时延,较其它协议更适合于网络状态变化比较频繁的环境以及实时多媒体应用。     

SoMR: A scalable distributed QoS multicast routing protocol

Many Internet multicast applications such as teleconferencing and remote diagnosis have Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements. The requirements can be additive (end-to-end delay), multiplicative (loss rate), or of a bottleneck nature (bandwidth). Given such diverse requirements, it is a challenging task to build QoS-constrained multicast trees in a large network where no global network state is available. This paper proposes a scalable QoS multicast routing protocol (SoMR) that supports all three QoS requirement types. SoMR is scalable due to small communication overhead. It achieves favorable tradeoff between routing performance and routing overhead by carefully selecting the network sub-graph in which it searches for a path that can support the QoS requirements. The scope of search is automatically tuned based on the current network conditions. An early-warning mechanism helps detect and route around the long-delay paths in the network. The operations of SoMR are completely decentralized. They rely only on the local state stored at each router.     

A Service-Centric Multicast Architecture and Routing Protocol

In this paper, we present a new multicast architecture and the corresponding multicast routing protocol for providing efficient and flexible multicast services over the Internet. Traditional multicast protocols construct and update the multicast tree in a distributed manner, which may cause two problems: first, since each node has only local or partial information on the network topology and group membership, it is difficult to build an efficient multicast tree and, second, due to the lack of complete information, broadcast is often used for sending control packets and data packets, which consumes a great deal of network bandwidth. In the newly proposed multicast architecture, a few powerful routers, called m-routers, collect multicast-related information and process multicast requests based on the information collected. The m-routers handle most of the multicast-related tasks, whereas other routers in the network only need to perform minimum functions for routing. The m-routers are designed to be able to handle simultaneous many-to-many communications efficiently. The new multicast routing protocol, called the Service-Centric Multicast Protocol (SCMP), builds a shared multicast tree rooted at the m-router for each group. The multicast tree is computed in the m-router by employing the Delay-Constrained Dynamic Multicast (DCDM) algorithm, which dynamically builds a delay-constrained multicast tree and minimizes the tree cost as well. The physical construction of the multicast tree over the Internet is performed by a special type of self-routing packets in order to minimize the protocol overhead. Our simulation results on ns-2 demonstrate that the new SCMP protocol outperforms other existing protocols and is a promising alternative for providing efficient and flexible multicast services over the Internet.     

基于受限泛播技术的可伸缩性QoS组播路由协议

随着远程会议、远程教育和交互式仿真等分布式多媒体应用的兴起,组播技术受到网络研究人员的重视.而这些应用的QoS(quality of service)需求又进一步推动了QoS敏感的组播路由协议的发展.在已提出的各种QoS组播路由协议中,如何提高呼叫成功率、增强规模伸缩性、降低控制报文开销,仍然是一个有待探索的问题.提出了一个新的QoS组播路由协议,其基本思想是使路由器只存储其两层邻居节点的可达性信息以及链路的QoS状态信息,以减少路由器存储开销,提高协议的规模伸缩性(scalability).协议采用受限的泛播技术,构造了一个接受节点发起的、采用多路径技术的、分布式路由算法.描述了协议的数据结构、组播树的构造算法,并给出了模拟实验结果.分析表明,基于受限泛播技术的组播路由协议具有节点存储开销小、呼叫接收成功率高等特点.虽然该协议付出了泛播引起的额外带宽开销较大的代价,但是由于协议所需要的控制数据总量不大,加上两层存储结构在一定程度上限制了泛播通信量,因此该方案具有很好的性能.     

基于WMPLS的无线自组网组播路由机制

将多协议标签交换(MPLS)技术与无线自组网组播机制相结合可以把MPLS在分组转发以及支持服务质量、流量工程等方面的技术优势引入到无线自组网组播路由协议设计中,具此提出了一种基于MPLS技术的组播协议设计方案——标签交换转发组播协议(Label-Switching Forwarding multicast routing protocol,以下简称LSF组播协议)。     

一种基于稳定簇的混合路由协议CBHRP

移动算组网是一种没有有线基础结构支持的移动网络,具有带宽有限和拓扑结构易变的特点。这些特点使得设计一个合适的路由协议具有一定的挑战性。该文针对移动自组网提出了一种基于稳定簇结构、按需路由和预先路由混合、支持单播和组播通信的路由协议CBHRP。CBHRP具有路由控制开销小、主机移动对拓扑结构改变的影响小、通信的初始延迟低和应用范围广的特点。     

A learning automata-based fault-tolerant routing algorithm for mobile ad hoc networks

Reliable routing of packets in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) has always been a major concern. The open medium and the susceptibility of the nodes of being fault-prone make the design of protocols for these networks a challenging task. The faults in these networks, which occur either due to the failure of nodes or due to reorganization, can eventuate to packet loss. Such losses degrade the performance of the routing protocols running on them. In this paper, we propose a routing algorithm, named as learning automata based fault-tolerant routing algorithm (LAFTRA), which is capable of routing in the presence of faulty nodes in MANETs using multipath routing. We have used the theory of Learning Automata (LA) for optimizing the selection of paths, reducing the overhead in the network, and for learning about the faulty nodes present in the network. The proposed algorithm can be juxtaposed to any existing routing protocol in a MANET. The results of simulation of our protocol using network simulator 2 (ns-2) shows the increase in packet delivery ratio and decrease in overhead compared to the existing protocols. The proposed protocol gains an edge over FTAR, E2FT by nearly 2% and by more than 10% when compared with AODV in terms of packet delivery ratio with nearly 30% faulty nodes in the network. The overhead generated by our protocol is lesser by 1% as compared to FTAR and by nearly 17% as compared to E2FT when there are nearly 30% faulty nodes.     

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.     

无线自组网多播协议的设计与仿真

在Ad hoc网络中,为了平衡能耗与鲁棒性,结合基于树和基于网格的多播协议的特点,给出了一个新的多播路由协议,基于Power aware优化的备用路径的多播协议(power aware-backup tree multicast,Pa-BTM).该协议采用主树和备用树相结合使用的方法,当主树损坏后立即采用备用树进行工作,提高了鲁棒性,同时基于树的结构也减少了能量的消耗.最后,使用仿真工具GloMosim对MAODV,ODMRP及Pa-BTM模拟仿真.仿真结果表明,该协议在包分发率和能量效能等性能上有所改善,可以较好地提高网络生存时间.     

QoS动态多播路由协议

保证服务质量的QoS（Quality of Service）路由是网络中解决OoS问题的一项关键技术．具有OoS约束的多播路由技术已成为网络领域的一个重要研究课题．该文研讨了具有QoS约束的动态多播路由问题．文中描述了一种适应于QoS多播路由的网络模型，提出了一种QoS动态多播路由协议（QDMRP）．QDMRP只要求网络链路（或节点）的局部状态信息，不需要维护全局状态信息．QDMRP较好地减少构造一棵多播树的开销．仿真实验结果表明：QDMRP具有较低的控制信息开销和节点加入时延，较好地适合于网络状态变化比较频繁的环境以及实时多媒体应用．     

基于稳定路径的MAODV协议改进

移动Ad Hoc网络组播路由协议MAODV中,组播树在节点移动速度较快的情况下会频繁重构,使得路由开销、传输时延显著增大。针对基于邻居节点变化率的稳定路径选择方法,提出一种新的节点邻居变化率的检测机制,不需要周期性地发送Hello消息,并在此基础上设计和仿真实现了基于稳定路径的MAODV协议SP-MAODV,新协议选择的路径稳定性好且跳数小。最后从数据分组传输成功率、路由开销、平均端到端时延和时延抖动四个方面对两个协议进行了仿真比较,结果表明SP-MAODV协议减少了路径中断概率,提高了协议性能。     

Distributed route repair for increasing reliability and reducing control overhead for multicasting in wireless MANET

The Multicast Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (MAODV) routing protocol is proposed for achieving multicast in a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) while reducing bandwidth waste and energy power consumption. In MANET, packets transmission through a multicast tree may always have unreliable links caused by node mobility or lack of energy, and thus significantly degrades the performance. MAODV uses a broadcast-type local repair mechanism to find an alternative route to the multicast tree when some breaks happen on the tree. Although the local repair mechanism provides a specified time-to-live (TTL) to limit the repair range and the hop-count to the group leader, a large number of broadcast-type Route Request (RREQ) messages extensively yields control overhead and requires a large amount of power consumption to send control messages. Thus, this paper proposes a unicast-type multihop local repair protocol for multicast MANETs to recover lost links efficiently while achieving several advantages: increasing network reliability, increasing packet delivery rate, minimizing the number of control messages and reducing repair delay. Moreover, the optimal number of hops used in the multihop neighbor table is analyzed mathematically. Numerical results indicate that the proposed approach outperforms other repair approaches in terms of successful repair rate, control message overhead and packet delivery rate.     

MPRN多播数据可靠传送协议的设计与研究

在移动分组无线网环境中,多播路由协议起着非常重要的作用。由于MPRN受到节点移动和带宽的限制,已有多播路由协议的可靠性不高。文章提出基于Gossip的传输协议(GBTP),旨在提高多播路由协议的数据分组递交率。在MFGRP上进行了GBTP的模拟和性能分析,研究了GBTP对分组递交成功率的影响。仿真实验显示GBTP协议可以有效地提高MFGRP协议的分组递交率。     

Design of a Scalable Multicast Scheme With an Application-Network Cross-Layer Approach

This paper develops an efficient and scalable multicast scheme for high-quality multimedia distribution. The traditional IP multicast, a pure network-layer solution, is bandwidth efficient in data delivery but not scalable in managing the multicast tree. The more recent overlay multicast establishes the data-dissemination structure at the application layer; however, it induces redundant traffic at the network layer. We propose an application-oriented multicast (AOM) protocol, which exploits the application-network cross-layer design. With AOM, each packet carries explicit destinations information, instead of an implicit group address, to facilitate the multicast data delivery; each router leverages the unicast IP routing table to determine necessary multicast copies and next-hop interfaces. In our design, all the multicast membership and addressing information traversing the network is encoded with bloom filters for low storage and bandwidth overhead. We theoretically prove that the AOM service model is loop-free and incurs no redundant traffic. The false positive performance of the bloom filter implementation is also analyzed. Moreover, we show that the AOM protocol is a generic design, applicable for both intra-domain and inter-domain scenarios with either symmetric or asymmetric routing.