While network-level multicast has tremendous potential for increasing the efficiency of group-oriented applications, the adoption of network-level multicast has been tepid at best. In this paper, we propose a novel concept entitled stealth multicast that allows for practical adoption of network-level multicast on a domain-wise basis rather than global scale. In the stealth multicast model, simi...

Typically, multicast data distribution uses rendezvous points (PIM, CBT), multicast distribution tree building protocols, and multicast forwarding. Whereas the first two approaches have been extensively studied, scaling multicast forwarding state without increasing forwarding complexity has not been addressed in detail. Having a scalable strategy for aggregation of multicast forwarding state is...

In mobile ad-hoc network, some multi -channel MAC protocols utilize multiple channels to reduce the collision of wireless transmission and thus get high throughput. These multi channel MAC protocols aim at improving the performance of unicast communication, and multicast data are generally transmitted through broadcast. So multicast can’t benefit from the multi -channel technique. This paper pr...

With IP Multicast not gaining wide acceptance, researchers turned to alternative multicast mechanisms like application level multicast. Application Level Multicast protocols arrange the participating hosts into an overlay topology; maintain it and distribute data packets over that topology. In this paper, we propose a new application level multicast protocol, describe few well-known protocols, ...

Many important cloud services require replicating massive data from one datacenter (DC) to multiple DCs. While the performance of pair-wise inter-DC transfers has been much improved, prior solutions are insufficient optimize bulk-data multicast, as they fail explore rich overlay paths that exist in geo-distributed DCs, well remaining bandwidth reserved for online traffic under fixed separation ...

This paper describes the issues that arise when using satellites for IP multicast, with the emphasis on multicast protocols and how their implementation depends on the satellite communications platform. Various link layer standards such as DVB-S, DVB-RCS and ATM can be used in satellites with onboard processing, and applied to meet user and network requirements for IP multicast. The paper provi...

Multicast and unicast traffic share and compete for network resources. To facilitate efficient and equitable resource allocation between traffic types, this paper advocates a costbased approach to multicast pricing. When prices are set to reflect actual network resource consumption, market distortion is minimized. Additionally, this paper calls for pricing multicast relative to the correspondin...

In this thesis, we will present solutions for end users on how to profit from efficient data transmission and dissemination using multicasting with Quality of Service (QoS) support. Multicasting is one of the most efficient mechanisms to distribute data from one sender to multiple receivers concurrently. Since IP Multicasting is not widely deployed in the Internet today, Overlay Multicast has b...

Mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes that want to communicate to each others, but has no fixed links like wireless infrastructure networks. Each node acts as a router and is responsible for dynamically discovering other nodes it can directly communicate with. Due to the network topology of an ad hoc network changes frequently and unpredictable, so the security of mul...

Overlay multicast makes use of the Internet as a low level infrastructure to provide multicast service to end hosts. The strategy of overlay multicast slides over most of the basic deployment issues associated with IP multicast, such as end-to-end reliability, flow and congestion control, and assignment of an unique address for each multicasting group. Since each multicast member is responsible...