The research of congestion control for Internet reliable multicast is one of the most active fields in reliable multicast protocol research. Many reliable multicast congestion control mechanisms have been put forward. In this paper we present principal problems of congestion control for Internet reliable multicast, analyze solutions and difficulties of solving these problems, and then give a cl...

We investigate the relationship between multicast routing algorithms and reliable multicast communication. To capture the impact of the multicast tree topology onto reliable multicast, we consider two performance measures, namely the probability mass function of successful receptions and the expected number of retransmissions needed to successfully deliver a packet from the source to all receiv...

We propose the so-called backup tree algorithm to compute a set of n-1 backup multicast delivery trees from the default multicast tree for application level multicast. For each backup multicast tree exactly one link of the default multicast tree is replaced by a backup link from the set of available links. The backup tree algorithm calculates the n-1 trees with a complexity of O (m log n).

Multicast based audio/video collaboration system is one of representative applications in next generation internet. Adopting multicast technique could save bandwidth for multipoint-to-multipoint audio/video communication. Lack of ubiquitous native multicast limits the application, and current multicast based A/V collaboration systems lack effective control mechanism. This paper introduces one c...

ulticast enables efficient large-scale content distribution by providing an efficient transport mechanism for one-to-many and many-to-many communication. Over the years, multi-cast has been the topic of many research, engineering, and deployment efforts. These efforts have continued to transform multicast into a technology that can be relied on by many applications. Work has been done in reliab...

Multicast routing research efforts have mostly focused on supporting the host-group model in which multicast packets are addressed to a host (or multicast) group. Another multicast routing approach uses multi-destination addressing, where a multicast packet carries a list of the unique (unicast) addresses of all the group members. This form of routing can be accomplished using limited or no add...

Multicast Extensions to OSPF Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the " Internet Official Protocol Standards " (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract T...

This paper presents a protocol and design for concurrent and reliable group multicast (many-to-many) from bursty data sources in general networks. In a group multicast, any node can be a multicast source and multiple nodes may start to multicast simultaneously, i.e., an asynchronous access to the network. The reliable multicast protocol presented in this work is window based with a combined sen...

In This paper presents a novel multicast routing protocol for mobile ad hoc wireless networks. The protocol, termed ODMRP (On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol), is a mesh-based, rather than a conventional treebased, multicast scheme and uses a forwarding group concept (only a subset of nodes forwards the multicast packets via scoped flooding). It applies on-demand procedures to dynamically bui...

| Multicast is the ability to transmit information from a single source node to multiple destination nodes. Current trends in networking applications indicate an increasing demand in future networks for multicast capability. We study multicast communication in a class of optical WDM networks with direct interconnects under some commonly used routing algorithms. Multicast communication patterns ...