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Most existing overlay multicast approaches refuse to consider any network layer support no matter whether it is available or not. This design principle greatly increases the complexity of the routing algorithms and makes the overlay topologies incompatible with the underlying network. To address these issues, topologyaware overlay multicast over IP multicast networks (TOMIMN) was proposed as a novel overlay multicast protocol, which exploits the cooperation between end-hosts and IP multicast routers to construct a topologyaware overlay tree. Through a little modification to protocol independent multicast sparse mode (PIM-SM), a multicast router is able to receive registration from nearby group members and redirect passing-by join requests to them. Due to the multicast router's support, TOMIMN organizes its group members into an overlay multicast tree efficiently, which matches the physical network topology well.

A distributed and adaptive framework (DAF) was proposed for provisioning quality of service (QoS) in IPv6 network. In DAF, per-flow admission control and resource reservation, in conjunction with a new IPv6 flow label mechanism, can be performed instantaneously in a fully distributed and independent fashion at the edge of network without hop-by-hop signaling. The flow label helps in resource reservation and packets forwarding for aggregated traffic on an edge-to-edge path basis. In addition, a bounded directional probing technique for DAF was designed to reconfigure resource reservation adaptively between every pair of edge router for aggregated traffic according to the fluctuation of its traffic load. The simulation results show that DAF provides QoS guarantees to individual flows with minimal overhead, as well as keeping the scalability characteristic like DiffServ.

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