IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
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Broadcast with Tree Selection from Multiple Spanning Trees on an Overlay Network
Takeshi KANEKOKazuyuki SHUDO
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2023 Volume E106.B Issue 2 Pages 145-155

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On an overlay network where a number of nodes work autonomously in a decentralized way, the efficiency of broadcasts has a significant impact on the performance of distributed systems built on the network. While a broadcast method using a spanning tree produces a small number of messages, the routing path lengths are prone to be relatively large. Moreover, when multiple nodes can be source nodes, inefficient broadcasts often occur because the efficient tree topology differs for each node. To address this problem, we propose a novel protocol in which a source node selects an efficient tree from multiple spanning trees when broadcasting. Our method shortens routing paths while maintaining a small number of messages. We examined path lengths and the number of messages for broadcasts on various topologies. As a result, especially for a random graph, our proposed method shortened path lengths by approximately 28% compared with a method using a spanning tree, with almost the same number of messages.

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