Research on application layer multicast middleware technology
应用层组播中间件技术研究

The actual researches have shown the feasibility to provide the fundamental functions of ALM to multicast application as the form of middleware. The key is describing these functions and defining one practical framework for middleware. Based on the analysis on the classical ALM systems, protocols and middlewares, this paper summarized the fundamental functions of ALM, and further presented a basic architecture of ALM middleware.