Ever-increasing attention has been drawn to source specific multicast in the Internet society. In this paper, a novel multicast scheme, called Scalable Recursive Explicit Multicast (SREM) is proposed. To address the scalability problem, SREM uses a pair of branching node messages (BNMs) to construct a multicast tree, which is built up gradually and dynamically as of multicast group members join...

We propose two multicast routing algorithms in this paper. One is a delay-constrained multicast algorithm that nds a multicast tree between one source node and multiple destination nodes. The other is a dynamic multicast algorithm that allows multiple nodes to dynamically join or leave a multicast group during a session. The rst algorithm, which provides multicas-ting and guaranteed QoS(Quality...

Many emerging applications in mobile adhoc networks involve group-oriented communication. Multicast is an efficient way of supporting group oriented applications, mainly in mobile environment with limited bandwidth and limited power. For using such applications in an adversarial environment as military, it is necessary to provide secure multicast communication. Key management is the fundamental...

M ANY networked applications rely on multicast communications for efficient operation. These applications include video conferencing, video distribution, computer supported collaborative work (CSCW), distributed games, and wide-scale information dissemination. These applications require a variety of services from the network beyond the provision of efficient routes between participants. Multica...

Due to the sparse deployment of IP multicast in the Internet today, some researchers have proposed application layer multicast as a new approach to implement widearea multicast services. In this approach multicast functionality is implemented at the end-hosts instead of network routers. Unlike network-layer multicast, application layer multicast requires no infrastructure support and can be eas...

Multicasting is a mechanism to send data to multiple receivers in an efficient way. In this paper, we give a comprehensive survey on network and transport layer issues of Internet multicast. We begin with a brief introduction to the current Internet protocol multicast model—the “host group” model and the current Internet multicast architecture, then discuss in depth the following three research...

We have applied the concept of truncated exponential timers for efficient reliable multicast feedback suppression for cases of both multicast and unicast feedback channels. Unicast feedback operation for multicast transport is becoming a more prevalent concern with the advent of source specific multicast routing and asymmetric networks offering forward-based multicast (e.g., satellite distribut...

The rise in multicast implementations has seen with it an increased support for fast failure recovery from link and node failures. Most recovery mechanisms augment additional services to existing protocols causing excessive overhead, and these modifications are predominantly protocol-specific. In this paper, we develop a multicast failure recovery mechanism that constructs protocol independent ...

To solve the IP mobility problem the use of multicast has been proposed in a number of different approaches, applying multicast in different characteristic ways. In this paper we provide a framework to classify such approaches by analyzing requirements, options for using multicast protocols, and mobility functionalities augmenting the multicast. Within this framework we identify promising combi...