Application layer multicast for video streaming
面向视频流媒体的应用层多播技术研究 *

This article focused on the recent development of application layer multicast(ALM) for video streaming.Firstly,summarized the research work on ALM and categorized the previous ALM protocols.Secondly,studied several representative ALM protocols designed for video streaming,addressed the frontier technologies utilized in these protocols and analyzed their merits and defects,meanwhile,gave some suggestions.Lastly,discussed further research directions on this area.