PALMS+: protocolo ALM baseado em desigualdade triangular para distribuição de streaming de vídeo

Abstract

Multimedia applications are very popular on the internet. Many of these applications need multicast to scale. However, network layer multicast has not been implemented in the internet. Application layer multicast (ALM) protocols are a practical alternative. However, despite their popularity, many existing ALM protocols and mechanisms are expensive and bring a large overhead control on the network. In the present work, a new protocol is proposed for content distribution based on tree, using the triangular inequality between every three peers to dynamic topology control (the PALMS+). The new protocol is simple and with low overhead. Nevertheless, its performance as good as the state of the art. Experimental results conducted with the OverSim platform (OMNet++) suggest that PALMS+ improves the performance of a state-of-art implementation of ALM protocol when compared against the NICE protocol. Furthermore, the control message overhead at peers using the PALMS+ protocol is reduced by 10%, when compared with NICE. In the PALMS+ protocol, chunks are delivered up to 1,5s. Results confirm that proposed implementation of PALMS+ is very suitable to real-time video streaming, even when churn is high.