Collaborative communications among multiple points.

Abstract

Zhang Xinyan.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves [78]-[85]).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Multiple Point Communication --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Major Contributions --- p.2Chapter 1.3 --- Thesis Organization --- p.4Chapter 2 --- Related Work --- p.5Chapter 2.1 --- Peer-to-Peer Networks --- p.5Chapter 2.2 --- Application Layer Multicast --- p.11Chapter 2.3 --- Internet Traffic Engineering --- p.19Chapter 3 --- MultiServ: Application Layer Multiple Path Routing --- p.23Chapter 3.1 --- Motivation --- p.24Chapter 3.2 --- MultiServ Overlay Construction --- p.28Chapter 3.3 --- MultiServ Routing --- p.33Chapter 3.3.1 --- The importance of routing strategy --- p.33Chapter 3.3.2 --- Solutions for IP network --- p.35Chapter 3.3.3 --- MultiServ routing --- p.37Chapter 3.3.4 --- MultiServ routing with bounded complexity --- p.39Chapter 3.3.5 --- Routing implementation --- p.41Chapter 3.4 --- Performance Evaluation --- p.45Chapter 3.4.1 --- End-to-end streaming --- p.45Chapter 3.4.2 --- Application-layer multicast --- p.50Chapter 3.4.3 --- Experiments in real network --- p.54Chapter 3.5 --- Summary and Future Work --- p.57Chapter 4 --- DDS: Distributed Dynamic Streaming --- p.59Chapter 4.1 --- Motivation --- p.59Chapter 4.2 --- Distributed Dynamic Streaming --- p.61Chapter 4.2.1 --- DDS overlay construction --- p.62Chapter 4.2.2 --- DDS streaming --- p.64Chapter 4.3 --- Performance Analysis in Dynamic User Environment --- p.66Chapter 4.3.1 --- Basic definition and user model --- p.67Chapter 4.3.2 --- Data outage in tree topology --- p.68Chapter 4.3.3 --- Data outage in DDS --- p.70Chapter 4.4 --- Performance Evaluation --- p.73Chapter 4.4.1 --- Simulation setup --- p.73Chapter 4.4.2 --- Simulation results --- p.74Chapter 4.5 --- Summary and Future Work --- p.75Chapter 5 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.76Bibliography --- p.7