Networked Group Communication Third International COST264 Workshop, NGC 2001, London, UK, November 7-9, 2001. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International COST264 Workshop on Networked Group Communication, NGC 2001, held in London, UK, in November 2001.The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. All current issues in the area are addressed. The papers are organized in topical sections on application-level aspects, group management, performance topics, security, and topology.

Application-Level.- Latency and User Behaviour on a Multiplayer Game Server.- Application-Level Multicast Using Content-Addressable Networks.- Scribe: The Design of a Large-Scale Event Notification Infrastructure.- Group Management.- Scamp: Peer-to-Peer Lightweight Membership Service for Large-Scale Group Communication.- Extremum Feedback for Very Large Multicast Groups.- An Overlay Tree Building Control Protocol.- Performance.- The Multicast Bandwidth Advantage in Serving a Web Site.- STAIR: Practical AIMD Multirate Multicast Congestion Control.- Impact of Tree Structure on Retransmission Efficiency for TRACK.- Security.- Framework for Authentication and Access Control of Client-Server Group Communication Systems.- Scalable IP Multicast Sender Access Control for Bi-directional Trees.- EHBT: An Efficient Protocol for Group Key Management.- Topology.- Aggregated Multicast with Inter-Group Tree Sharing.- Tree Layout for Internal Network Characterizations in Multicast Networks.