MCPO (Multicast/Multipeer Overlay)

As an exemplary service on top of Ariba, we provide the MCPO service.

MCPO's main purpose is enabling group communication mechanisms for applications using Ariba. This is accomplished ba employing well-known Application-Layer Multicast mechanisms similar to the NICE (Ref) protocol. To be scalable even with higher numbers of participants, the approach uses hierarchical clustering, deviding the set of participants in layers of subsets.