Placement of proxy-based multicast overlays

Computer Networks

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 627-655

  Wu, Min You ^a   Zhu, Yan ^b   Shu, Wei ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Multicast; Overlay networks; Performance evaluation; Proxy placement; Routing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EVALUATION; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; ROUTERS; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; MULTICASTS; OVERLAY NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PROXY PLACEMENT; ROUTING;

MULTICASTING;

EID: 18244368690     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2004.11.019     Document Type: Article

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