TY - GEN
T1 - Towards economically viable infrastructure-based overlay multicast networks
AU - Khare, Varun
AU - Zhang, Beichuan
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Internet-scale dissemination of streaming contents (e.g., live sports games) can be achieved by infrastructure-based overlay multicast networks, where multicast service providers deliver the contents via dedicated servers strategically placed over the Internet. Given the huge amount of data traffic, one of the major operation costs is the ISP cost for network access. However, existing overlay multicast protocols only consider network performance metrics in building dissemination trees without taking into account the potentially high ISP cost they may incur. This paper presents a scheme, Revenue-driven Overlay Multicast Networks (ROMaN), to assign users to different servers in order to maximize the profit derived from providing multicast services. ROMaN exploits the fact that ISP charging functions are concave by assigning users to the cheapest available servers, and dynamically adjusts the assignment to accommodate the churns of group membership. The evaluation shows that ROMaN not only can reduce ISP cost substantially, but also has shorter end-to-end delay due to smaller overlay size, and the longer a user stays in the group the better the service it will receive.
AB - Internet-scale dissemination of streaming contents (e.g., live sports games) can be achieved by infrastructure-based overlay multicast networks, where multicast service providers deliver the contents via dedicated servers strategically placed over the Internet. Given the huge amount of data traffic, one of the major operation costs is the ISP cost for network access. However, existing overlay multicast protocols only consider network performance metrics in building dissemination trees without taking into account the potentially high ISP cost they may incur. This paper presents a scheme, Revenue-driven Overlay Multicast Networks (ROMaN), to assign users to different servers in order to maximize the profit derived from providing multicast services. ROMaN exploits the fact that ISP charging functions are concave by assigning users to the cheapest available servers, and dynamically adjusts the assignment to accommodate the churns of group membership. The evaluation shows that ROMaN not only can reduce ISP cost substantially, but also has shorter end-to-end delay due to smaller overlay size, and the longer a user stays in the group the better the service it will receive.
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U2 - 10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062121
DO - 10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062121
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349658428
SN - 9781424435135
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
SP - 1989
EP - 1997
BT - IEEE INFOCOM 2009 - The 28th Conference on Computer Communications
T2 - 28th Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2009
Y2 - 19 April 2009 through 25 April 2009
ER -