This paper proposes COCOP – COoperative COntrol Protocol, which enables a synchronous cooperative group to interactively control an on-demand server which multicasts time-dependent data streams. Multicast-based streaming on-demand systems such as video on-demand systems, web casters, and networks of real/virtual sensors can beneficially exploit COCOP to provide cooperative control sessions as a...

In this paper, we present our experience with the IRMA reliable multicast architecture. IRMA guarantees reliable, sequenced, and loosely synchronized delivery of multicast streams by supporting TCP as the multicast transport protocol at the end hosts without modifications to the standard TCP/IP stack. To support TCP as the multicast transport protocol, IRMA provides ACK aggregation, local recov...

Reliable multicast protocols on top of the MBone are presently subject to intensive research. In the past, numerous protocols have been developed and their respective performance been analysed. Little progress has been made, though, to compare different approaches. In this paper, we use the network simulator ns-2 to evaluate the performance of three protocols, namely Scalable Reliable Multicast...

This paper proposes a new multicast protocol for Mobile Ad hoc networks, called Efficient Mobile Multicast Routing (EMMR) The protocol is designed with the intention of reducing unnecessary traffic to non-interested nodes in MANET multicast operations. When members of a multicast group form clusters within the MANET, EMMR should allows more traffic to be sent simultaneously because traffic is c...

This document defines FLUTE, a protocol for the unidirectional delivery of files over the Internet, which is particularly suited to multicast networks. The specification builds on Asynchronous Layered Coding, the base protocol designed for massively scalable multicast distribution.

A protocol for the reliable multicast of data to mobile hosts is described. A logical ring is maintained between all the base stations that handle the multicast traffic of the same multicast group. A token passing protocol enforces a consistent view between all base stations with respect to the frames that are considered delivered to all mobiles. The interaction of the reliable multicasting and...

Reliability of the message passing in multicast communications depends on ordering of messages in conformance with properties of used communication protocol. Among others, CBCAST is the protocol used for ordering and synchronization of messages in multicast communication. This study aims to discuss verification of message passing in the multicast communication against properties of the CBCAST p...

In this paper we present a multicast protocol which builds upon a cluster based wireless network infrastructure. First, we introduce the network infrastructure which includes several innovative features such as: minimum change cluster formation; dynamic priority token access protocol, and; distributed hierarchical routing. Then, for this infrastructure we propose a multicast protocol which is i...

In this paper we present a multicast protocol which builds upon a clustcr based wireless network infrastructure. First, we introduce the network infrastructure which includes several innovative features such as: minimum change cluster formation; dynamic priority token access protocol, and; distributed hierarchical routing. Then, for this infrastructure we propose a multicast protocol which is i...

Quality of service (QoS) based routing and scalability are two key features of multicast routing for the next generation Internetworks. This paper proposes a new protocol called QoS-aware hierarchical multicast routing protocol (QHMRP) that achieves scalability by organizing the network as a hierarchy of domains using the full-mesh aggregation technique. The protocol uses a novel reverse floodi...