Accounting mechanism for membership size-dependent pricing of multicast traffic

David Breitgand*, Danny Dolev, Danny Raz

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Abstract

A number of schemes for membership size-dependent pricing of multicast traffic have been proposed recently. The enabling accounting technology, however, is lagging behind. Retaining an exact count of the active receivers is very difficult. To target an accounting mechanism, we suggest novel monitoring algorithms that combine a hierarchical control structure with event-driven monitoring. The efficiency and tradeoffs of the proposed solutions are thoroughly studied through simulations using both synthetic, and real MBone workloads. As we show, depending on the workload and the required accuracy, we can reduce the monitoring traffic by factor of 2 to 10 compared to other known alternatives.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsBurkhard Stiller, Georg Carle, Martin Karsten, Peter Reichl, Burkhard Stiller, Georg Carle
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages276-286
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783540394051
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2816
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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