Incremental deployment of a router-assisted reliable multicast scheme
Christos Papadopoulos, Emmanouil Laliotis · 2000
Recently, several schemes have been proposed that address the problem of scalable reliable multicast using router assistance. These include LMS, PGM, AIM and OTERS, among others. While these schemes (arguably) achieve significantly better performance than non-assisted schemes, a thorny issue remains: are these schemes incrementally deployable? More specifically, what is the performance impact of partial deployment to the application and the network? What is the best strategy to deploy such schemes? These questions, while very important, have not been addressed yet.