Abstract. The paper deals with tree-structured point-to-multipoint networks, where users from infinite user populations at the leaf nodes subscribe to a variety of channels, offere...
The goal of this paper is to identify and discuss scalability issues for the measurement-based analysis of the availability in large-scale networks using IP multicast technology. ...
Abstract—Many distributed applications require a group of destinations to be coordinated with a single source. Multicasting is a communication paradigm to implement these distrib...
Abstract--Applications using multicast service discovery protocols, such as iTunes, have become increasingly popular. However, multicast service discovery protocols generate signif...
We present an approach to building multicast services at the network layer using unicast forwarding and two additional building blocks: (i) ephemeral state probes, i.e. extremely l...