An analytical study of FairOM: a fair overlay multicast protocol for Internet-scale distributed systems

Fairness emerges as an important research issue in overlay multicast because spreading the multicasting load evenly among participants can eliminate potential traffic hot spots, thus improving the system's quality of service (QoS). In this paper, we analyze FairOM and compare it with non-FairOM approaches from two aspects: tree height and number of sessions that can be supported, which measure FairOM from a single-session's and multiple-session's point of view, respectively