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A Case for a Generalized Periodic Broadcast Server: Design, Analysis, and Implementation Minh Tran Wanida Putthividhya Wallapak Tavanapong Johnny Wong Department of Computer Science Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-1040, U.S.A. Email:{ttminh,wanidap,tavanapo,wong}@ Abstract riodic broadcast servers for some specific protocols have been implemented [4, 17, 18]. Periodic broadcast is an effective paradigm for large-scale In our opinion, the scarcity of the implementation and the dissemination of popular videos. Considerable research efforts deployment of periodic broadcast protocols on the Internet is have gone into designing many excellent periodic broadcast due to two main reasons (i) the lack of infrastructure support protocols in terms of minimizing the server network bandwidth for multicast, and (ii) little to none has been documented on and the client resources. However, there are only a few im- the allocation of resources inside a periodic broadcast server. plementations of periodic broadcast protocols available. This With regard to the first issue, although IP Multicast has been is probably because little has been documented on how the deployed slowly [16], there are numerous challenges [6] to memory and disk bandwidth resources of a periodic broadcast overcome before IP Multicast becomes widely available on the server should be allocated. In this paper, we present a Gener-