Abstract—While the advantages of multicast delivery over multiple unicast deliveries is undeniable, the deployment of the IP multicast protocol has been limited to “islands” ...
The global deployment of IP multicast has been slow due to the difficulties related to heterogeneity, scalability, manageability, and lack of a robust inter-domain multicast rout...
Overlay multicast tree is widely used to support large-scale real-time multimedia applications. The scalability and the robustness are two key issues in the overlay structure desi...
Multicast and MPLS are two complementary technologies. Merging these two technologies where multicast trees are constructed over MPLS networks will enhance performance and present...
Ali Boudani, Bernard Cousin, Chadi Jawhar, Mahmoud...
This paper presents a new protocol, the Ordered Core Based Tree (OCBT) protocol, which remedies several shortcomings of the Core Based Tree (CBT) multicast protocol. We show that ...