While the IP unicast service has proven successful, extending end-to-end adaptation to multicast has been a difficult problem. Unlike the unicast case, multicast protocols must su...
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...
IP multicasting has naturally been considered the ideal technique to be used with multimedia communications. Unfortunately, current multicast protocols do not consider the dynamic...
: Multicasting has an increasing importance for network applications such as groupware or videoconferencing. Several multicast routing protocols have been defined. However they can...
Multicast trees are used in a variety of applications, such as publish/subscribe systems or content distribution networks. Existing algorithms for ad-hoc networks typically produc...