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. We provide a systematic discussion of fundamental options for multicastbased mobility support and the definition and experimental performance evaluation of selected schemes. The discussion is based on an analysis of the architectural,...

This paper addresses the issue of ISP motivation for multicast deployment. Our work is motivated by unicast applications such as on-line gaming and multimedia streaming that cannot leverage an existing multicast infrastructure and thus manage data distribution to multiple interested clients themselves. While such applications would greatly benefit from a multicast infrastructure, there is quest...

Despite a decade of research and development, multicast has not yet been deployed on a global scale. Among the difficulties with the current infrastructure are intermulticast fairness support, multicast congestion control, and multicast routing. In this paper, we focus on the inter-multicast fairness issue which addresses the way how the network resources are shared between competing multicast ...

Recent advances in multicasting over the Internet present new opportunities for improving communication performance for clusters of workstations. Realizing collective communication over reliable multicast can achieve higher performance than over reliable unicast primitives. The standard IP multicast, however, only supports unreliable multicast, which is diicult to use for building high level me...

In the last years, various approaches have been shown to measure the reliability of an IP multicast network. Some of these tools are intended just to check the reachability of different hosts and routers via IP multicast, some are going a little further. They try to measure the Quality of Service (QoS) of the IP multicast network as well. The most interesting approach is the MRM (Multicast Reac...

IP multicast technology is highly advantageous for various applications and future needs in the Internet. Yet, it is generally recognized that the IP multicast routing protocol is fairly complex and nonscalable and requires additional maintenance and operational cost to network administrators. Although there has been much research related to IP multicast and most router vendors already support ...

Overlay networks are becoming a popular vehicle for deploying advanced services in the Internet. One such service is multicast. Unlike conventional IP multicast, which requires universal deployment of network layer mechanisms, the overlay multicast model leverages the existing unicast mechanism and offers many service flexibilities to applications. Implementing multicast without requiring netwo...

To support group oriented service which is said to be the primary application that are addressed by Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) in recent years, multicast routing is used. Hence there is a need to design stable and reliable multicast routing protocols for MANETs. Hydra, the first multicast routing protocol for MANETs establishes a multicast routing structure approximating the set of source-...

Multicast is an important technique for the distribution of data to groups of receivers. While in the past multicast traffic was restricted to slower transmission rates, newer networking equipment supports multicast in hardware and allows multicast traffic up to line rates of several hundreds of megabits and even gigabits. This evolution generates new opportunities for applications but also maj...

Multicast communications has regained research interest due to the deployment of real-time services to large groups of users. While IP multicast has not been deployed due to unsolved problems, a combined use of both IP multicast and overlay multicast may lead to a more efficient solution. The work presented herein consists on the analysis of the data plane efficiency of the multicast architectu...