Multicast service, which is one of the multi-point communication methods, should be applied to adjust it to evolving mobile network environment. In this paper, we propose a fast multicast management scheme for mobile terminals in HMIPv6-based mobile networks. In HMIPv6-based mobile network environment, multicast management scheme provides multicast service during mobile handover depending on th...

In this paper, we propose a Multicast Routing Protocol termed ZBMRP (Zone Based Multicast Routing Protocol) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). ZBMRP applies on-demand procedures to dynamically establish mesh-based multicast routing zones along the path from the multicast source node to the multicast receivers. Control packet flooding is employed inside multicast zones, thus multicast overhead...

Multicast applications such as multimedia, medical imaging, digital audio and video conferencing are bandwidth-intensive. With the advance in optical technology providing abundant bandwidth, it is natural to extend the multicast concept to optical networks in order to gain enhanced performance. This paper provides a comprehensive review of optical multicast techniques, covering the main optical...

Mobile networks that handle multicast communication services, such as video-ondemand, news-on-demand etc., require a kind of reliable and secure point-to-point, point-tomultipoint specific group communications for sophisticated organisation of multicast communications. A reliable multicast tree is an efficient connectivity between the source node and the multicast group members through the depe...

The state-oriented design of IP multicast may lead to the scalability problem, especially when there is a very large number of concurrent multicast groups in the network. Motivated by this problem, explicit multicast offers a stateless design using header space of multicast data packets. In this paper, we propose a novel stateless scheme called Linkcast that efficiently eliminates processing ov...

More and more research effort has been done to study the non-cooperative games recently. Among these various forms of games, the unicast/multicast routing game [2,5,6] and multicast cost sharing game [1,3,4] have received a considerable amount of attentions over the past few year due to its application in the Internet. However, both unicast/multicast routing game and multicast cost sharing game...

In this paper, we propose a new approach, Simple Explicit Multicast (SEM), which uses an efficient method to construct multicast trees and to deliver multicast packets to all destinations. In order to construct a multicast tree, the source encodes the list of destination addresses in a branch message. This message discovers the tree branching routers and creates a multicast routing state in eac...

Without a doubt, multicast communication|the one-to-many or many-to-many delivery of data|has become a hot topic. It is of interest in the research community, among standards groups, and to network service providers. For all the attention multicast has received, there are still issues that have not been completely resolved. One result is that protocols are still evolving and some standards are ...

The next generation Internet and high-performance networks are expected to support multicast routing with QoS constraints. To facilitate this, QoS multicast routing protocols are pivotal in enabling new member to join a multicast group. Multicast routing is establishing a tree which is rooted from the source node and contains all the multicast destinations. A multicast routing tree with multipl...