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Multicast Traffic Aggregation through Entity Title Model

Authors:
Maurício Amaral Gonçalves
Flávio de Oliveira Silva
João Henrique de Souza Pereira
Pedro Frosi Rosa

Keywords: telecommunications networks; Internet; multicast; future Internet; clean slate; entity title model.

Abstract:
Internet was designed in a totally different context than the one existing today. New applications have brought a new set of requirements which were not properly resolved due to architectural limitations. Therefore, the Internet architecture must be reviewed in a clean slate approach. In this context, Entity Title Model represents a revolutionary way to semantically understand the entities, observing their needs and capabilities in order to better serve them, through a new flexible architecture with several innovations, especially in addressing and routing aspects. This paper presents a protocol capable of providing efficient multicast at the network layer, based on ETArch over OpenFlow. Multicast is an important requirement for applications involving the transmission of multimedia content, real-time communication and data-sharing services. We describe some experiments and present a comparison between a video application, first implemented using TCP/IP with unicast and multicast services, and then using ETArch focusing on multicast traffic aggregation. The results showed that the bandwidth consumption using our architecture remains constant just as the traditional one; however, our approach uses slightly less bandwidth, provides better strategies for the control plane, improves the group addressability, and facilitates its deployment based on the broad support to Openflow by leading equipment suppliers.

Pages: 175 to 180

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: July 20, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4030

ISBN: 978-1-61208-360-5

Location: Paris, France

Dates: from July 20, 2014 to July 24, 2014