Improved fault recovery for core based trees

✍ Scribed by L Schwiebert; R Chintalapati

• Book ID: 104273533
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 260 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0140-3664
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-3664(00)00159-6

✦ Synopsis

The demand for multicast communication in wide-area networks, such as the internet, is increasing. Core based trees is one protocol that has been proposed to support scalable multicasting for sparse groups. When faults occur in the network nodes or links of the tree, the tree can become disconnected. In this paper, we propose an efficient protocol for recovering from faults in a core based tree. One of the key ideas is a technique for restructuring the disconnected subtree so that a loop-free path to the core can be found. The correctness of this protocol is also proved.