Revisiting IP multicast

This paper revisits a much explored topic in networking – the search for a simple yet fully-general multicast design. The many years of research into multicast routing have led to a generally pessimistic view that the complexity of multicast routing – and inter-domain multicast routing in particular – can only be overcome by restricting the service model (as in single-source) multicast. This paper proposes a new approach to implementing IP multicast that we hope leads to a reevaluation of this commonly held view. Categories and Subject Descriptors: C.2.2 [Network Protocols]: Routing Protocols General Terms: Design.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: SIGCOMM
• Authors: Sylvia Ratnasamy, Andrey Ermolinskiy, Scott Shenker
• Keywords: Fully-general Multicast Design, Inter-domain Multicast Routing, Multicast Routing, SIGCOMM 2006