Application Layer Multicast Based Services on Hierarchical Peer to Peer Architecture

Abstract

Application Layer Multicast (ALM) is considered as an attractive approach for implementing wide area multicast services. In ALM, multicast functionality is implemented at the edge instead of the core network (routers). As opposed to network-layer multicast, application layer multicast requires no infrastructure support and can be easily deployed in the Internet. In this paper, we propose a new efficient and scalable model for optimizing application layer multicast using HPM architecture (HPM: A novel hierarchical Peer-to-Peer model for lookup acceleration with provision of physical proximity). This approach benefits from P2P properties and characteristics. In this contribution, we consider our optimized tree construction algorithm simultaneously for each ring of HPM. The global tree construction algorithm is composed of two steps. In the first step, we construct a sub-tree for each ring; the second step is to build a global tree using sub sets of adjacent rings in HPM architecture. The proposed model inherits from main P2P attributes such as: scalability, fault tolerance characterized HPM. Preliminarily performance evaluations show that results are globally satisfactory, the depth of the resulting multicast tree is optimized.