In general IP multicast supports location-independent addressing and routing for a group of hosts. This ability is similar to the requirement for mobility support in IP-based networks though in a different context. MOMBASA stands for “MObility support – a Multicast BASed Approach”. It is intended to utilise multicast in order to support network level mobility. The basic mechanism of a multicast...

A large range of applications exists with demand for high-performance point-to-point and point-tomultipoint communication. Existing communication subsystems frequently represent a major performance bottleneck. To overcome this bottleneck, a framework for high-performance multicast transfer protocol processing is presented, based on hardware support for multicast error control in transmitters an...

Group communication can benefit from Internet Protocol (IP) multicast protocol to achieve efficient exchange of messages. However, IP multicast does not provide any mechanisms for authentication. In literature, many solutions to solve this problem were presented. It has been shown that Wong and Lam protocol is the only protocol that can resist both packet loss and pollution attacks. In contrast...

We present the Preemptive Bandwidth Allocation Multicast Protocol; a distributed multicast QoS-aware signaling protocol that adapts the users’ bandwidth requirements to the limited resources available in the network by preempting bandwidth of less prioritized streams from existing multicast groups. We assume that each multicast group will have different multicast streams with predefined quality...

A multistage interconnection network is a suitable class of interconnection architecture for constructing large-scale multicomputers. Broadcast and multicast communication are fundamental in supporting collective communication operations such as reduction and barrier synchronization. In this paper, we propose a new multicast technique in wormhole-switched bidirectional multistage banyan network...

In network multimedia applications, such as multiparty teleconferencing, users often need to send the same information to several (but not necessarily all) other users. To manage such one-to-many or many-to-many communication e ciently in wide-area internetworks, it is imperative to support and perform multicast routing. Multicast routing sends a single copy of a message from a source to multip...

In multimedia distributed applications such as videoconferencing, real time data exchange requires formal models to design and specify the Quality of Service (QoS) of such multimedia communication. The proposed multimedia multicast protocols are based on enhanced Timed Petri Nets multimedia models. These models allow synchronised data streams to be exchanged in partial order and reliability, ac...

Abstract— Multicast-based data communication is an efficient communication scheme especially in multihop ad hoc networks where the MAC layer is based on one-hop broadcast from one source to multiple receivers. In this paper, we address the problem of resource allocation for a set of homogeneous multicast sessions over multihop wireless networks. We propose an iterative algorithm that achieves t...

Multicasting denotes a facility in a communications system for providing efficient delivery from a message's source to some well-defined set of locations using a single logical address. While modem network hardware supports multidestination delivery, first generation Transport Layer protocols (e.g. the DoD Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) [15] and ISO TP-4 [41]) did not anticipate the change...

With the increasing demand of multimedia applications, efficient and effective support of quality of service (QoS) has become more and more essential. A multicast communication creates a distribution tree structure, on which a multicast source sends a single copy of data to a group of receivers instead of sending a separate copy of the data to each receiver as in a unicast communication. In thi...