This paper describes Transis, a communication sub-system for high availability. Transis is a transport layer package that supports a variety of reliable multicast message passing services between processors. It provides highly tuned multicast and control services for scalable systems with arbitrary topology. The communication domain comprises of a set of processors that can initiate multicast m...

In this paper, we propose a protocol for multicast communication called Multicast Datagram Transfer Protocol (MDTP) to provide multicast for video broadcasting service on the Internet. MDTP is a oneto-many multicast communication protocol, which is constructed based on IPv4 unicast protocol by utilizing IP Router Alert Option, and it uses unicast addressing and unicast routing protocol. A mecha...

This paper addresses multicast communication in a family of multichannel networks with staircase topologies. Although the topologies are single-hop, in that every node can reach every other node in a single hop, several channels may be required in order to reach multiple destinations. The topologies are analyzed with respect to their ability to support multicast communication, and algorithms ar...

For a long time, the quality of the distributed multimedia applications was restricted by the limitations of the computer networking technologies. This scenery has changed a lot with the introduction of ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode). Characteristics like quality of service (QoS), support to different categories of traffic (voice, video and data), high scalability, among others, make ATM one ...

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) is the multihop communication technology. Numerous internet based applications of WMNs are based on multicasting technology such as video conferencing, webcast, online distributed gaming etc. This technology especially arises for group communication. It provides high mobility to the network and reduces the chances of frequent failures. To support multicasting, vari...

Secure multicast communication has application in growing number of applications. Forward secrecy is of prime importance and insures message con…dentiality even long-term private key compromised. We present an e¢ cient construction of multi message multi receiver signcryption with forward secrecy on elliptic curves. It provides con…dentiality, integrity, authenticity, non-repudiation, public ve...

Multicast is rapidly becoming an important mode of communication as well as a good platform for building group-oriented services. However, to be used for trusted communication, current multicast schemes must be supplemented by mechanisms for protecting traac, controlling participation, and restricting access of unauthorized users to the data exchanged by the participants. In this paper, we cons...

Multicast is an internetwork group communication service which reduces the transmission overheads. The data can be secured by encrypting it with a group key, shared among all group members [6]. Whenever members join/leave in a group communication, it is essential to preserve the forward and backward confidentiality by sending new keys for transmission. When members join/leave frequently, it giv...