Offering a Multicast Delivery Service in a Programmable Secure IP VPN Environment

The programmable network approach is one possible solution to quickly adapt existing infrastructures to new requirements. This paper shows how programmable networking can be exploited within a VPN environment to offer a secure group communication service across the Internet. We show how the IP VPN approach offloads security, management and administration hassles from the multicast members and we propose a new simple Internet VPN Group Management Protocol, IVGMP, as an alternative to traditional multicast routing protocols.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: NGC
• Authors: Lina Alchaal, Vincent Roca, Michel Habert
• Keywords: Communications, IP VPN Approach, NGC 2002, Programmable Network Approach, Simple Internet Vpn