We design an effective multicast routing algorithm for distributing layered multicast video to heterogeneous receivers in networks with rate-based link schedulers. The multicast tree constructed by the algorithm fulfills the QoS requirements imposed by heterogeneous receivers both in terms of bandwidth and delay, and at the same time, consumes as little network resource as possible. For the pur...

Recently multicast routing protocols in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are emerging for wireless group communication. This includes application such as multipoint data dissemination and multiparty conferencing which made the analytical design and development of the MANETs in a very efficient manner. For MANETs there are several multicast routing protocols are available, but they perform well u...

In the age of multimedia and high-speed networks, multicast is one of the mechanisms by which the power of the Internet can be further harnessed in an efficient manner. When more than one receiver is interested in receiving a transmission from a single or a set of senders, multicast is the most efficient and viable mechanism. In the protocol stack of the network, multicast is best implemented i...

ÐMulticast communication is a key issue in almost all applications that run on any parallel architecture and, hence, efficient implementation of of multicast is critical to the performance of multiprocessor machines. Multicast is implemented in parallel architectures either via software or via hardware. Software-based approaches for implementing multicast can result in high message latencies, w...

The definitions of IGMPv3 and MLDv2 require new behavior within the multicast routing protocols. The additional source information contained in IGMPv3 and MLDv2 messages necessitates multicast routing protocols to manage and utilize the information. This document will describe how multicast routing protocols will interact with these source-filtering group management protocols.

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 new hardware tree-based routing algorithm (HTA) for multicast communication under virtual cut-through switching in k-ary n-cubes that out-performs existing software and hardware path-based multicast routing schemes. Simulation results are compared against several commonly used multicast routing algorithms and show that HTA performs extremely well under many different...

This paper proposes the ASIMcast (Any-Source Implicit Multicast) protocol which builds a bidirectional tree for routing of multicast traffic. ASIMcast includes features addressing issues which have been slowing down the deployment of multicast until now. ASIMcast does not use class D IP addresses to forward multicast data but normal unicast addresses instead. This prevents the collision of diff...

This letter presents: 1) a delay analysis model, which is specially for the admission control of real-time multicast connections in ATM networks; 2) a distributed multicast routing algorithm, which generates suboptimal routing trees under real-time constraints; and 3) a connection setup method that integrates multicast routing with admission control.

With integration of software routers with embedded platform we can get the most modern routers, but with less price. TV and radio services over IP networks become available just when multicast routing is used. Multicast routing is currently feature only on expensive hardware solutions. XORP open-source platform offers multicast routing through a software router, with the possibility of integrat...