Open AccessMulticast Support in DiffServ Using Mobile Agents
Author(s) -
Hachimi Mohamed El,
Abouaissa Abdelhafid,
Lorenz Pascal
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
etri journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2233-7326
pISSN - 1225-6463
DOI - 10.4218/etrij.05.0104.0043
Subject(s) - multicast , computer network , computer science , xcast , quality of service , protocol independent multicast , distance vector multicast routing protocol , source specific multicast , distributed computing , pragmatic general multicast , ip multicast , multicast address , communication in small groups , reservation , videoconferencing , telecommunications
Many multicast applications, such as video‐on‐demand and video conferencing, desire quality of service (QoS) support from an underlying network. The differentiated services (DiffServ) approach will bring benefits for theses applications. However, difficulties arise while integrating native IP multicasting with DiffServ, such as multicast group states in the core routers and a heterogeneous QoS requirement within the same multicast group. In addition, a missing per‐flow reservation in DiffServ and a dynamic join/leave in the group introduce heavier and uncontrollable traffic in a network. In this paper, we propose a distributed and stateless admission control in the edge routers. We also use a mobile agents‐based approach for dynamic resource availability checking. In this approach, mobile agents act in a parallel and distributed fashion and cooperate with each other in order to construct the multicast tree satisfying the QoS requirements.