Resource and service discovery, data transfer or replica management, are some examples of basic operations of a grid which can gain efficiency by using multicast transmission tech...
Many grid applications need to transfer large amounts of data between the geographically distributed sites of a grid environment. Network heterogeneity between these sites makes t...
Ad-hoc networks enable mobile devices to communicate without any fixed infrastructure. While reliable multicasting has been identified as a key application in this context, we a...
— Security and QoS are two main issues for a successful wide deployment of multicast services. For instance, in a multicast streaming application, a receiver would require a data...
An architecture and associated protocols are presented for managing multicast addresses and performing connection control for applications that use multicast communication faciliti...