Skip Navigation

The Computer Journal 1999 42(6):522-533; doi:10.1093/comjnl/42.6.522
© 1999 by British Computer Society
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (2)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Chi, K.-H.
Right arrow Articles by Huang, T.-L.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

A Framework for Mobile Multicast Using Dynamic Route Reconstructions

Kuang-Hwei ChiA1, Chien-Chao TsengA1 and Ting-Lu HuangA1

A1 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University 1001, Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30010 Email: cctseng@csie.nctu.edu.tw

A mobile computing environment allows hosts to roam while retaining access to the Internet. Multicasting is one of the most important facilities for constructing reliable distributed systems and cooperative applications. Host mobility, however, challenges multicasting in this environment: the established multicast delivery paths may frequently restructure along with host migrations, incurring expensive overheads. This paper presents a framework for network-layer multicasting while keeping a low overhead in adapting multicast routes to mobile host locations. This is achieved by partitioning the mobile environment into non-overlapping regions, so that changes in the multicast routes due to host intra-region movements are hidden from other regions. An analytical model was developed for performance evaluation. It shows that, compared with the best known proposal, our scheme reduces the average multicast latency by more than 66%, while causing less than 7% overhead.

Received 1 August, 1998. Revised 21 April, 1999.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.