A large-scale contents publishing architecture based on reliable multicast

Abstract

Communication networks have matured to realize online digital contents publishing. This paper proposes a contents publishing architecture which makes a large-scale contents delivery available using recent networks. Multicast is a promising network technology to provide large-scale efficient delivery. However, the issues of reliable and restricted delivery using multicast need to be solved to realize a practical contents publishing. A reliable multicast tool is proposed for error free and confirmed delivery to thousands of users. A contents publishing procedure including service access control and delivery charge is also proposed for commercial publishing.

Performance analysis of a scaleable design for replicating file collections in wide-area networks

“…JetFile exploits multicast for efficient multipoint distribution of immutable file objects. Likewise, other researchers have proposed multicast file distribution in the context of enhancing rdist-like file distribution [21], push caching [22], simple file distribution to WWW servers [23], document delivery applications [24], and other applications. As noted by the JetFile designers, multicasting offers not only advantages in efficient bulk-data distribution, but also flexibility in organizing host communication that avoids the fragility inherent to hierarchical arrangements.…”