Multicast is a very important building block in modern high-speed networking. This document 1 is an overview of both existing multicasting techniques as well as proposed extensions and optimizations to today's IP Multicast. We also discuss multicasting techniques for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks, especially the problems and issues that arise in conjunction with IP multicast and the...

SNMPv3, a simple network management protocol, is secure in unicasting communications (i.e., point-to-point or end-to-end transmission). Furthermore, a manager and an agent can authenticate and exchange secure transmission between each other with no time delay or replay. In this paper, we extend the SNMPv3 unicasting security solution to be applicable in multicasting applications. In addition, w...

Most of the Internet applications today require multicasting. For example, software updates, multimedia content distribution, interacting gaming and stock data distribution require multicast services. All of these applications require privacy and authenticity of the participants. Most of the multicasting groups are dynamic and some of them are large in number. Only those users who belong to the...

Multicasting is an efficient mechanism for one to many data dissemination. Unfortunately, IP Multicasting is not widely available to end-users today, but Application Layer Multicast (ALM), such as Content Addressable Network, helps to overcome this limitation. Our OM-QoS framework offers Quality of Service support for ALMs. We evaluated OM-QoS applied to CAN and show that we can guarantee that ...

This paper proposes the IP Multicast-enabled Drop Groups (I-DG) protocol as a solution to the problem of efficiently and securely disseminating information to a large number of subscribers in the Internet. The I-DG protocol uses an appropriate IP multicasting protocol as the base and addresses the problems introduced by large scale data dissemination. I-DG provides dynamic subscription to multi...

Multicast seemed the only possible technique for one/many-to-many content distribution over many years. However we never had a world-wide content distribution network based on multicasting excluding some small and preconfigured networks such as mbone. Fortunately, today we have lots of content distribution networks such as gnutella, BitTorrent, eDonkey and Napster. All of these networks are bui...

The phenomenal growths of group communications and QoSaware applications over the Internet have respectively accelerated the development of two key technologies, namely, multicasting and Differentiated Services (DiffServ). Although both are complementary technologies, their integration is a non-trivial task due to architectural conflicts between them. In this paper, we propose a new approach, E...

Multicast operation is an important operation in multicomputer communication systems and can be used to support several other collective communication operations. A signi cant performance improvement can be achieved by supporting multicast operations at the hardware level. In this paper, we propose a tree based multicasting algorithm for Multistage Interconnection Networks (MIN). We rst analyze...

A Mobile adhoc network (MANETs) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a network without using any centralized access point, infrastructure or centralized administration multicasting is an useful operation that facilitates group communication efficient and scalable .Multicast routing in MANETs is a difficult issue. In addition to the conventional multicast routing algorith...

— In this paper, an efficient algorithm to look for backup parents in preparation of parent leaving is proposed for application layer multicasting whose topology is constituted in the shape of a tree from a single source node. In most conventional methods, each child node starts searching for its new parent after its parent node leaves from a multicasting tree. This reactive operation often cau...