Efficient Epidemic Multicast in Heterogeneous Networks.
J. Pereira, R. Oliveira, L. Rodrigues.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on
Reliability in Decentralized Distributed Systems, part of the OTM
Federated Conferences and Workshops. Montpellier, France, October,
2006. (accepted for publication).
Abstract
The scalability and resilience of epidemic multicast, also called
probabilistic or gossip-based multicast, rests on its symmetry: Each
participant node contributes the same share of bandwidth thus
spreading the load and allowing for redundancy. On the other hand, the
symmetry of gossiping means that it does not avoid nodes or links with
less capacity. Unfortunately, one cannot naively avoid such symmetry
without also endangering scalability and resilience. In this paper we
point out how to break out of this dilemma, by lazily deferring
message transmission according to a configurable policy. An
experimental proof-of-concept illustrates the approach.
Also available extended report (pdf) .
Luís Rodrigues