Efficient resource reservation based on communication paradigms for multicast multimedia applications

In modern multimedia applications, heterogeneous hosts may get involved in a complicated multicast communication paradigm. For facilitating the analysis on resource reservation in such an environment, a useful model for describing the multicast communication paradigm, termed the CP graph, is presented in this paper. Based on this model, we develop a set of reservation modeling frameworks, respectively employing the RSVP reservation scheme and a proposed scheme. We prove the proposed scheme is able to achieve more efficient reservation than the RSVP scheme, while incurs very limited information and processing overheads. We simulate two applications: one with a distant learning scenario and the other B2B bargain scenario. The simulation results confirm the effectiveness of our scheme.