Layered multicast is a common approach for dissemination of audio and video in heterogeneous network environments. Layered multicast schemes can be classified into two categories...
— Incremental deployment of a new network service or protocol is typically a hard problem, especially when it has to be deployed in the routers. First, an incrementally deployabl...
— A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a temporary network without using any existing infrastructure. Since not many MANETs are curren...
— Multicast solutions have been evolving from “bottom” to “top”, i.e., from IP layer (called IP multicast) to application layer (referred to as application layer multicas...
Li Lao, Jun-Hong Cui, Mario Gerla, Dario Maggiorin...
Group communications (multicast) are foreseen to be one of the most critical yet challenging technologies to meet the exponentially growing demands for data distribution in a large...