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Fourth Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS'02)   p. 61
Gathercast with Active Networks
Yu He, University of Southern California
Cauligi S. Raghavendra, University of Southern California
Steven Berson, University of Southern California

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Abstract
Small packets constitute a large fraction of packets in the Internet. Gathercast is a network layer service that combines small packets going to the same destination into a single packet, reducing the number of packets in the network and saving computations at intermediate routers. In this paper, we propose a new model for gathercast using active network techniques. With this model, gathercast is built throughout the network with low overhead, service parameters can be dynamically adjusted and end-user applications obtain benefits from gathercast without knowing its existence. We also present an implementation of the active gathercast.
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Citation:  Yu He, Cauligi S. Raghavendra, Steven Berson, "Gathercast with Active Networks," ams, p. 61,  Fourth Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS'02),  2002