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Volume 26, Issue 12, 21 July 2003, Pages 1255-1262
 
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A framework for allocating clients to rate-constrained multicast servers

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Zongming FeiCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, a, Mengkun YangE-mail The Corresponding Author, a, Mostafa H. AmmarE-mail The Corresponding Author, b and Ellen W. ZeguraE-mail The Corresponding Author, b

a Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA

b College of Computing, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA


Received 14 March 2002; 
revised 3 October 2002; 
accepted 31 October 2002. ;
Available online 3 December 2002.

Abstract

Forming multiple multicast groups is a technique often used to deal with the problem of heterogeneous client capacities by allocating clients with different capacities to different groups. In this paper, we investigate the problem of allocating clients to constrained multicast servers, which, similar to clients, have different capacities. We explore several interesting issues caused by these constraints and propose a framework for generating optimal solutions to the allocation problem. We evaluate the method by simulation and show a substantial performance gain of our algorithm over those considering the server constraints separately.

Author Keywords: Multicast; Replication; Server selection; Rate constraint

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Problem description
3. A framework for generating optimal allocations
3.1. Implementation considerations
4. Performance evaluation
5. Related work
6. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
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