Dissertation Defense

Providing Efficient and Reliable End-host Multicast Services on the Internet

Wenjie Wang
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The fast emergence of P2P services, such as P2P file sharing, P2P phone service, and P2P video streaming demonstrates its potential to deliver large files and high quality streams to a large audience. The successful commercialization of P2P audio services such as Skype illustrates the business potential of P2P services. End-host multicast, an alternative to IP multicast, becomes a natural protocol for these P2P applications that deliver data in a one-to-many fashion. However, end-host multicast avoids the deployment hurdles of IP Multicast at the cost of efficiency and reliability. In this thesis, we present a complete solution for providing efficient and reliable end-host multicast services on the Internet, encompassing protocol design, Internet reality check, protocol improvement and customization, and finally, system deployment.

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S. Jamin