ALMI: An Application Level Multicast Infrastructure

By Dimitrios E. Pendarakis, Sherlia Shi, D. Verma, M. Waldvogel. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, 2001

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Citations in the corpus

• Distributing streaming media content using cooperative networking (2002, background): “, ALMI [14], End System Multicast [3], Scattercast [2]) is directly relevant to the live streaming aspect of CoopNet.”
• Enabling conferencing applications on the internet using an overlay muilticast architecture (2001, background): “ALMI: An Application Level Multicast Infrastructure.”
• A peer-to-peer architecture for media streaming (2004, methodology): “In the overlay-router approach [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], a number of reliable servers are installed across the network to act as the software routers with multicast functionality.”
• Bayeux: an architecture for scalable and fault-tolerant wide-area data dissemination (2001, background): “There are several projects that share the goal of providing the bene ts of IP multicast without requiring direct router support ([3, 4, 9, 13, 18]).”
• Host multicast: a framework for delivering multicast to end users (2002, background): “ALMI takes a centralized approach to the tree creation problem .”
• Resilient peer-to-peer streaming (2003, background): “In ALMI [31] and Overcast [20], a central node coordinates tree management, as in CoopNet.”
• Resilient overlay networks (2001, background): “6 ALMI ALMI, an Application Level Multicast Infrastructure, provides many-to-many multicast for small groups (tens of nodes) [41].”
• Construction of an efficient overlay multicast infrastructure for real-time applications (2003, background): “Narada [9], NICE [10], Yoid [6], Gossamer [2],Overcast [11],ALMI [12], Scribe [13], Bayeux [14] multicast-CAN [15]) have explored implementing multicast at the application layer.”
• ZIGZAG: an efficient peer-to-peer scheme for media streaming (2003, methodology): “In the overlay-router approach [10], [11], [12], [4], a number of reliable servers are installed across the network to act as the software routers with multicast functionality.”
• Scalable application layer multicast (2002, methodology): “We present extensive simulations of both our protocol and the Narada application-layer multicast protocol over Internet-like topolo­gies.”