A Bandwidth and Latency-Aware Protocol for Streaming Multimedia Content

We design a bandwidth and latency aware application layer multicast protocol to stream multimedia content. This protocol considers network bandwidth heterogeneity, in which the cluster population is bounded by the capacity of the access point. The cluster range is limited by the end-to-end latency threshold. This protocol achieves high scalability by distributed and local administration. The application layer multicast tree is highly flexible in the sense that the host adjusts its location in the tree based on its packet receiving behavior. Through the simulation experiment, we demonstrate that our protocol achieves low latency, high reliability and high adaptivity, while incurring moderate control message overhead.