IP multicast routing protocols allow a set of multicast routers to build or join multicast distribution trees when a terminal requests to receive traffic from a certain group. A distribution tree ...

A protocol is needed to enable multicast terminals to announce their membership of broadcast groups to their local multicast router. In this way, the multicast routing protocol will know the existence ...

Abstract: With the ever increasing demand of multimedia traffic on the Internet the interest in deploying multicast has increased. One hurdle in this regard is quantifying the multicast protocol ...

This chapter provides an overview of multicast transport protocols. It also provides an introduction to multicasting and the features that can be added to satisfy each application's requirements. The ...

The foundations of today’s streaming industry were largely laid by multicast engineers in the early and mid-1990s. For example, the Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP) and the Session Description ...

Multicast, a technique commonly used in networking systems, allows a given processing unit to send a single data stream to multiple destinations at the same time efficiently. Typically, the switch ...

IPv6 Multicast is a BGP address family (AFI 2, SAFI 2) that enables BGP to carry multicast routing information for IPv6 networks. It provides Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) information for IPv6 ...

The use of IP for audio and broadcast transport applications has gained increasing attention as the quality of service (QoS) of packet switched networks continually improves. The lure of reduced costs ...