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Resilient overlay network for real-time interactive multimedia sessions in corporate networks

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Real-time interactive multimedia communications are becoming increasingly useful for education, business, e-commerce and e-government, providing an enriched user experience in teleconferencing, e-meetings, distance training and product demonstrations. Large corporations are usually located at several sites, so real-time multipoint sessions within corporations are especially difficult. IP multicast is available or feasible within each site of an organization. Thus, corporate networks can be considered as various multicast-capable networks interconnected through a wide area network without multicast connectivity. This paper proposes a resilient self-managed overlay network to support real-time multipoint interactive sessions within corporate networks. The proposed overlay takes advantage of the configuration of corporate networks to self-organize and provide an efficient media delivery service, making use of multicast communications wherever available. Various self-healing techniques are implemented allowing for the continuity of ongoing sessions in spite of network disruptions and entity failures. Extensive simulations and tests have been carried out to assess the performance and resilience of the overlay facing several types of disruptions.

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This research has been partially funded by the Spanish National Plan of Research, Development and Innovation under the project TIN2011-24903. Financial support (Grant:UNOV-10-BECDOC-S) given by the University of Oviedo-Banco de Santander is also acknowledged.

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    Juan C. Granda, Pelayo Nuño, Julio Molleda, Rubén Usamentiaga & Daniel F. García

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Granda, J.C., Nuño, P., Molleda, J. et al. Resilient overlay network for real-time interactive multimedia sessions in corporate networks. Multimedia Systems 22, 543–557 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-015-0466-5

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