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Scalability Analysis of Source Routing Multicast for Huge Numbers of Groups

Yohei KATAYAMA, Takeru INOUE, Noriyuki TAKAHASHI, Ryutaro KAWAMURA

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Source routing multicast has been gathering much more attention rather than traditional IP multicast, since it is thought to be more scalable in terms of the number of groups at the cost of higher traffic loads. This paper introduces a mathematical framework to analyze the scalability of source routing multicast and IP multicast by leveraging previous multicast studies. We first analyze the amount of data traffic based on the small-world nature of networks, and show that source routing multicast can be as efficient as IP multicast if a simple header fragmentation technique (subgrouping) is utilized. We also analyze scalability in terms of group numbers, which are derived under the equal budget assumption. Our analysis shows that source routing multicast is competitive for low bit-rate streams, like those in the publish/subscribe service, but we find some factors that offset the advantage. This is the first work to analytically investigate the scalability of source routing multicast.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E96-B No.11 pp.2784-2794
Publication Date
2013/11/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E96.B.2784
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Progress in Information Network Science)
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Authors

Yohei KATAYAMA
  NTT Network Innovation Laboratories
Takeru INOUE
  NTT Network Innovation Laboratories
Noriyuki TAKAHASHI
  NTT Network Innovation Laboratories
Ryutaro KAWAMURA
  NTT Network Innovation Laboratories

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