Scalable adaptive hierarchical clustering

Mathy, L. and Canonico, R. and Simpson, Steven and Hutchison, David (2002) Scalable adaptive hierarchical clustering. IEEE Communications Letters, 6 (3). pp. 117-119.

Abstract

We propose a new application-level clustering algorithm capable of building an overlay spanning tree among participants of large multicast sessions, without any specific help from the network routers. The algorithm and associated protocols are shown to exhibit scalable properties.