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Internet
auction is one of the most important e-business. Its dominant
player, eBay, supports tens of millions listings and hundreds of
millions of searches on an average day. But it requires its user
to pull (or refresh) its web pages regularly to get the latest
bidding information. As the deadline of an auction is
approaching, an eBay user often has to frantically click on the
web page hoping to become the last one to submit a bid. This
mode of operation leads to lost of opportunity for the bidder,
seller and service provider.
In
this talk, we will give a demonstration comparing Internet push
auction to the existing pull method and review the reasons why
push technology is not more developed in the Internet. To enable
Internet push auction, results in several areas are needed. We
will focus on our network layer result called Implicit Multicast
Protocol, or IMcast. IMcast routers can be integrated with
legacy routers transparently, it builds and maintains shortest
path trees from the sender to the receivers, and its address
space is separate and independent of unicast address space. If
time permits, we will also describe our results in message
ordered multicast and a protocol that is more fair to the
auction users.
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