Active networks allow code to be loaded dynamically into network nodes at run-time. This code can perform tasks specific to a stream of packets or even a single packet. In this pa...
Albert Banchs, Wolfgang Effelsberg, Christian F. T...
This paper addresses support for nzulti-party multimedia applications delivered across datagram wide-area networks such as the Internet. Our approach is to develop a novel retrans...
Matthew T. Lucas, Bert J. Dempsey, Alfred C. Weave...
Abstract. A simple UDP packet reflector for virtual multicast multimedia transfer is extended to form a distributed system of active elements that solves the scalability problem o...
Despite the fact that global multicast is still not possible in today’s Internet, many local networks are already multicastcapable (the so-called multicast “islands”). Howev...