Research on application layer multicast middleware technology
Dou Wen-hua · Jisuanji gongcheng · 2005
Since there is still a long way to go for the practical business of IP multicast,Application Layer Multicast(ALM) has been a perfect alternative approach.The actual researches have shown the feasibility to provide the fundamental functions of ALM to multicast application as the form of middleware.The key is describing these functions and defining one practical framework for middleware.Based on the analysis on the classical ALM systems,protocols and middlewares,this paper summarized the fundamental functions of ALM,and further presented a basic architecture of ALM middleware.