The Impact of Heterogeneous Bandwidth Constraints on DHT-Based Multicast Protocols
- Ashwin R. Bharambe ,
- Sanjay G. Rao ,
- Venkat Padmanabhan ,
- Srinivasan Seshan ,
- Hui Zhang
Fourth International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS) |
We consider support for bandwidth-demanding applications such as video broadcasting using DHTs. We focus our investigations by considering the impact of heterogeneity in the outgoing bandwidth capabilities of nodes on Scribe, a representative and relatively mature DHT-based multicast protocol. We expose important issues that arise due to the mismatch between the ID space that underlies the DHT and the outgoing bandwidth constraints on nodes.