Methods and arrangements for facilitating the further development of a distribution tree among at least three nodes in a distributed network. A network performance measurement associated with the propagation of a message between the publisher node and the joining subscriber node is ascertained, as well...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US20030012216?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20030012216 - Methods and arrangements for building a subsource address multicast distribution tree using network bandwidth estimates