A Time and Distance - Based Multicast Algorithm for IPv6 Mobile Networks

IP multicasting has naturally been considered the ideal technique to be used with multimedia communications. Unfortunately, current multicast protocols do not consider the dynamic membership. Therefore, we propose a time and distance-based multicast algorithm (TDBMA) for IPv6 mobile networks. The TDBMA is subject to time and distance. A foreign network is qualification to join the existing multicast tree only its value of time and distance is larger than a computed threshold. The experimental analyses are presented to characterize the performance of the proposed algorithm.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: AINA
• Authors: Wu-Hsiao Hsu, Bin-Hau Lee, Ming-Han Liu, Bor-Yeh Shen, Kun-Hua Lin
• Keywords: AINA 2004, Computer Networks, Current Multicast Protocols, Distance-based Multicast Algorithm, Multicast