Multicast network services advantageously complement multimedia information and communication technologies, as they open up the realm for highly scalable multicustomer application...
The IP multicast has not been widely used by current internet service operators, and part of this relates to the nature of multicast, which is designed to allow any host to receiv...
In this paper we investigate which characteristics reliable multicast services should have in order to be appropriate for use by distributed interactive media applications such as...
Overlay networks among cooperating hosts have recently emerged as a viable solution to several challenging problems, including multicasting, routing, content distribution, and pee...
Group communications (multicast) are foreseen to be one of the most critical yet challenging technologies to meet the exponentially growing demands for data distribution in a large...