End System Multicast: Theory, System and Applications
(John C.S. Lui)

One of the major problems about IP multicasting is on the deployment. Either many existing routers are not IP-multicast enable or many ISP and system administrators are unwilling to turn on the multicast features. This creates a major deployment hurdle for performing IP multicasting on the Internet. One way to overcome this problem is to enable the application-level multicast. This research examines the theoretical issues (e.g., distributed mutual exclusion, distributed locking,....etc) as well as system implementation on the basic infrastructure so that we can deploy a large scale multicasting service on the Internet.