Technical Readings about ESM

1. Selected Abstract

"End System Multicast is an architecture for enabling live and interactive audio and video based streaming applications over the Internet, where end systems implement all multicast related functionality including membership management and packet replication. Here, end systems self-organize into overlay trees using distributed protocols, and optimize the efficiency of the overlay by adapting to network dynamics and considering application level performance. We are broadcasting many interesting events using the End System Multicast architecture and protocols in an effort to demonstrate its feasibility and gain valuable practical experience that can aid further research and deployment."

• More technical details and research publications on End System Multicast.
• Other peer-to-peer research within our research group are also available.

Please direct all questions or comments about our system to esm-help@lists.andrew.cmu.edu.

2. Posters

Here are a couple of posters for our previous broadcast that succinctly summarizes the project (require Adobe Acrobat Reader).

• Overview of End Systems Multicast (.pdf)

More about our Linux porting effort, Logger scaling effort and Online monitoring effort

• More engineering effort on ESM (.pdf)

We've also added NAT and firewall support to our system.

• Supporting NAT and Firewall Peers in End System Multicast (.pdf)

Recently, a complete toolkit for publishing is completed

• Multimedia publishing toolkit

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