Evaluation of a Topological Distance Algorithm for Construction of a P2P Multicast Hybrid Overlay Tree
Sergej Alekseev, Jörg Schäfer · International journal of Computer Networks & Communications · 2016
In the last decade Peer to Peer technology has been thoroughly explored, becauseit overcomes many limitations compared to the traditional client server paradigm.Despite its advantages over a traditional approach, the ubiquitous availability of high speed, high bandwidth and low latency networks has supported the traditional client-server paradigm.Recently, however, the surge of streaming services has spawned renewed interest in Peer to Peer technologies.In addition, services like geolocation databases and browser technologies like Web-RTC make a hybrid approach attractive.In this paper we present algorithms for the construction and the maintenance of a hybrid P2P overlay multicast tree based on topological distances.The essential idea of these algorithms is to build a multicast tree by choosing neighbours close to each other.The topological distances can be easily obtained by the browser using the geolocation API.Thus the implementation of algorithms can be done web-based in a distributed manner.We present proofs of our algorithms as well as experimental results and evaluations.