There are several possible approaches to support multicast communication within an ATM subnetwork. A simple one is ATM Forum’s LAN emulation, where a special server broadcasts all multicast packets to all nodes within a subnetwork. This paper compares two approaches published as IETF draft documents. These are the so-called multicast router approach where an IP multicast router is used as ATM m...

AMnet flexibly provides communication services inside the network. It is based on active networking and on a hardware/software codesign in order to improve efficiency. Group communication is explicitly addressed since it is an important paradigm for future network applications. However, the variety of applications, network technologies, end systems, and user preferences restricts multicast comm...

This paper describes an agent-based approach for scheduling multiple multicast on wormhole switch-based networks. Multicast/broadcast is an important communication pattern, with applications in collective communication operations such as barrier synchronization and global combining. Our approach assigns an agent to each subtree of switches such that the agents can exchange information efficient...

This paper presents efficient multicasting with reduced contention on irregular networks with switchbased wormhole interconnection and unicast message passing. First, it is proved that for an arbitrary irregular network with a typical deadlock-free, adaptive routing, it may not be possible to create an ordered list of nodes to implement an arbitrary multicast in a contention-free manner with mi...

Distributed applications spanning multiple geographical locations have become common in recent years. Typically, each geographical site, or group, hosts an arbitrarily large number of processes connected through high-end local links; a few groups exist, interconnected through high-latency communication links. As a consequence, communication among processes in the same group is cheap and fast; c...

Quantum multicast is a significant transmission mode in multiparty communication scenario. Multisource collaboration can further enhance the efficient multicast. However, it remains challenge to realize quantum with cooperative way complex topology network. In this article, we propose scheme of hybrid It provides information aggregation and simultaneous multipoint services. First, collaborative...

Although IP Multicast is an effective network primitive for best-effort, large-scale, multi-point communication, many multicast applications such as shared whiteboards, multi-player games and software distribution require reliable data delivery. Building services like reliable sequenced delivery on top of IP Multicast has proven to be a hard problem. The enormous extent of network and end-syste...

The novel concept of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) aided joint radar and multicast-unicast communication (Rad-MU-Com) is investigated. Employing the same spectrum resource, a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) base station detects radar-centric users (R-user), while transmitting mixed messages both to R-user communication-centric user (C-user). In...