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What is Application-Level Network (ALN)

Chapter 13
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
Applications running in the hosts that can create a virtual network from their logical connections. This is also called an overlay network. The operations of such software entities are not able to be understood without the knowledge of their logical relations. In most cases these ALN software entities use the P2P model.
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A Clustering Model of the Application-Level Multicast
Gábor Hosszú (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary) and Raymond Pardede (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch013
Abstract
This chapter reviews the most important fact of the application-level multicast (ALM) and then describes a novel concept of modeling relative density of members called bunched mode and a proposed host-end multicast routing protocol called shortest tunnel first(STF). The bunched mode is based on the thematic multicast concept (TMC), which means that it is atypical multicast scenario where there are a lot of interested hosts in certain institutions, relatively far from each other. This situation is called bunched mode, in which the members of a multicast group are locally in the dense mode, and globally their situation is similar to the sparse mode because these spots are far from each other. The developed analysis tool, Net Sim, and the implementation of the TMC, Pardede CAST, are also presented as the tools of this research.
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Chapter 216
Thematic-Based Group Communication
The applications, which are running in the hosts, can create a virtual network from their logical connections. This is also called overlay network (see following term). The operations of such software entities are not able to understand without knowing their logical relations. The most cases this ALN software entities use the P2P model (see following term), not the client/server (see following term) one for the communication.
Published in Chapter: Thematic-Based Group Communication; From: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
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Chapter 96
Thematic-Based Group Communication
The applications, which are running in the hosts, can create a virtual network from their logical connections. This is also called overlay network. The operations of such software entities are not able to understand without knowing their logical relations.
Published in Chapter: Thematic-Based Group Communication; From: Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration
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