The Core-Assisted Mesh Protocol (CAMP) is introduced for multicast routing in ad-hoc networks. CAMP generalizes the notion of core-based trees introduced for internet multicasting into multicast meshes that have much richer connectivity than trees. A shared multicast mesh is defined for each multicast group; the main goal of using such meshes is to maintain the connectivity of multicast groups ...

Many multicast applications, such as video-ondemand and tele-education have quality of service(QoS) requirement from the underlying network. Recently, many QoS-based multicast protocols have been proposed to meet these requirements. However, few of them can achieve high success ratios. In this paper, we propose a new QoS-based multicast protocol, QoSaware Multicast Protocol using Bounded Floodi...

In this paper, we study atomic multicast, a fundamental abstraction for building fault-tolerant systems. We suppose a system composed of data centers, or groups, that host many processes connected through high-end local links; a few groups exist, interconnected through high-latency communication links. In this context, a recent paper has shown that no multicast protocol can deliver messages add...

This paper presents a reliable multicast protocol (OTERS) that organizes receivers into a fusion tree that matches the multicast delivery tree of the source and uses this tree to fuse NAKs and subcast retransmissions. The protocol requires two extensions to the current Internet network layer, namely multicast route backtracing and subcasting. We argue that these extension are simple, natural an...

In this paper, we propose and analyze a multicast application called SOMA (SynchrOnous Multicast Application) which offers multicast file transfer service in an asymmetric intra-campus environment (several interconnected wired and wireless LAN networks interconnected through few routers). For efficient bandwidth utilization, SOMA transmits IP packets by using multicast addressing. We also propo...

Multicasting is a scalable solution for group communication. Whereas secure unicast is a well-understood problem, scalable secure multicast poses several unique security problems, namely groupmembership control, scalable key distribution to a dynamic group. We address scalability in the pro-posed protocol by using hierarchical subgrouping. Third party hosts or members of the mul...

ATM Forum Technical Committee ATMF 95-1438 **************************************************************************************** Title: Reliable Multicast Service Needs Cell-Level FEC Scheme **************************************************************************************** Abstract: A number of protocol architectures for the provision of scalable reliable multicast services over the In...

The majority of today's Internet applications relies on point-to-point transmission. In recent years, however, multicast transmission has become the foundation for such applications as multiparty video conferencing, distributed interactive simulations, and collaborative systems. We describe a novel protocol to coordinate multipoint groupwork in the IP-multicast framework. The protocol supports ...

A variety of issues, both technical and commercial, has hampered the widespread deployment of IP multicast in the global Internet. Application Level Multicast (ALM) approaches using the overlay network have been recently proposed as a viable alternative to IP multicast. In this paper, we proposed a DNS-aided ALM which builts overlay network with the help of the existing Domain Name Service (DNS...

Multicast Routing in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) is a recent research topic. In this paper, we present a performance study of three multicast protocols: ODMRP, ADMR, and SRMP. Source Routing-based Multicast Protocol (SRMP) is a new on-demand multicast routing protocol that applies a source routing mechanism and constructs a mesh to connect group members. The strength of SRMP lies on its nod...