Performance Evaluation of Dynamic Tree-Based Reliable Multicast

Due to the pruning and joining of members, multicast groups are dynamic. Both the topology and the total number of links change during multicast sessions, and the multicast performance, measured in terms of the bandwidth consumption, will change accordingly. In this paper, we investigate the dynamic performance of multicast communication with homogeneous packet loss probability; indeed, we evaluate the effects of the pruning of receivers and of subnets, after which we find the optimal placements of repair servers. A new 3-phase algorithm for adapting the optimal repair server placements to the dynamic changes of network topologies is presented and analyzed. key words: reliable multicast, dynamic, optimization, topology, repair service