Although many multicast communication protocols have been recommended at IETF, reliable multicast communications currently rely on programs built at the application layer, e.g., m...
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...
— 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...
Application-layer multicast (ALM) can solve most of the problems of IP-based multicast. Topology-aware approach of ALM is more attractive because it exploits underlying network top...
— Multicast services can be provided either as a basic network service or as an application-layer service. Higher level multicast implementations often provide more sophisticated...