OMMP: A Novel Approach to Multihomed Multicasting

We proposed a multihomed proxy model to analyze the overlay multicast routing problem in a fine granularity so that we can perform the traffic balancing on a link basis rather than on a node basis. We also compared three path selection algorithms, which do the necessary preparation before the routing process can start. Through simulation results, we show that the alternative path algorithm results in a much better performance in both tree diameter and traffic balancing. In the end we give the OMMP architecture to combine all above notions into a practical framework.