SL-SOAP: a Self-organized Agent Protocol for Large-scale Layered Video Multicast
SL-SOAP：一个大型分层视频组播代理自组织协议

The central topic of HALVM, a Hierarchical Adaptive Architecture for Large-scale Layered Video Multicast, is how to configure and manage hierarchical agents dynamically. Through analyzing the logical components of hierarchical agents and the original topology of video multicast tree, this paper proposes a novel agent protocol (SL-SOAP)which based on the shared loss Model. In SL-SOAP, we first decompose a self-organized agent into several logical processes, and propose an optimal method to deposit the processes of multiple adaptive video multicast sessions in multicast network nodes. SL-SOAP has been applied to two video multicast applications and proved to be an effective scheme.