Multicast-Unicast Reflector
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چکیده
With the deployment of advanced multicast routing protocols and transport protocols for real-time data, multicast services on the Internet experience renaissance. Together with the global improvements in the underlying network infrastructure, this opens possibilities for a wide range of exciting multimedia applications. However, many Internet hosts are not connected to MBone, the Internet multicast backbone. In this paper we discuss the reasons, and present the MulticastUnicast Reflector, an original architecture for solving the multicast connectivity problem.
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