Proposal on application layer multicast, based on a ring shaped route
Ryoichi Suganuma, Hidekazu Suzuki, Katsuhiro Naito, Akira Watanabe · 2017
With increasing opportunities for transmitting large capacity data such as media content distribution, it has become more and more important to utilize network resources efficiently. As a means of solving this issue, we can name a system called "multicast system" by which the same information can be received by multiple end nodes simultaneously. Although "IP multicast" can realize a multicast in the IP layer, its popularization is considered to be difficult since it is necessary to replace routers. Accordingly, a system called ALM (Application Layer Multicast) has been drawing attention.