End-host Multicast Project

Although people have deployed IP Multicast on the core routers and switches in the Internet recently, IP Multicast is still not widely available after being proposed over ten years. Therefore, there has been a trend of moving multicast support from the network layer into the application layer. There have been many studies to design, implement and evaluate various protocols for end-host multicast. An end-host multicast protocol builds an application-level overlay that connects members in a multicast group through unicast connections. Members in the multicast group then use this overlay for the delivery of multicast content.

The key issues in building the application overlay are how to reduce the performance penalty and how to minimize the duplicate packets going through the same physical link. In this page, we present our effort to build an efficient and scalable end-host mulitcast protocol.

PIs:

Students:

Veterans:

David Helder

Documents:

Papers:

Wenjie Wang, Ye Du, Sugih Jamin, "Improving Resiliency of Overlay Networks for Streaming Applications" Technical Report CSE-TR-523-06, EECS Department, University of Michigan, 2006.
Beichuan Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Sugih Jamin, Daniel Massey, Lixia Zhang, "Universal IP Multicast Delivery,"Computer Networks 50(6): 781-806, 2006.
Wenjie Wang, Cheng Jin, Sugih Jamin, "Network Overlay Construction under Limited End-to-End Reachability" Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005, March 2005, Miami, USA.
Wenjie Wang, Hyunseok Chang, Amgad Zeitoun, Sugih Jamin, "Characterizing Guarded Hosts in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems" In Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2004)---Global Internet and Next Generation Networks, Nov 2004, Dallas, USA
Wenjie Wang, Cheng Jin, Sugih Jamin, "Network Overlay Construction under Limited End-to-End Addressability" Technical Report CSE-TR-489-04, EECS Department, University of Michigan, 2004.
Wenjie Wang, David Helder, Sugih Jamin, Lixia Zhang, "Overlay Optimizations for End-host Multicast", In Proceedings of Fourth International Workshop on Networked Group Communication (NGC), Oct 2002.
Beichuan Zhang, Sugih Jamin, Lixia Zhang, "Universal IP Multicast Delivery", In Proceedings of Fourth International Workshop on Networked Group Communication (NGC), Oct 2002.
Beichuan Zhang, Sugih Jamin, L. Zhang, "Host Multicast: A Framework for Delivering Multicast to End Users", IEEE INFOCOM 2002.
David A. Helder, Sugih Jamin, "End-host Multicast Communication Using Switch-tree Protocols", Proceedings of the Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing on Large Scale Distributed Systems (GP2PC), May 2002