— Group communications are important in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET). Multicast is an efficient method to implement the group communications. However, it is challenging to imp...
In recent years, much work has been done on attempting to scale multicast data transmission to hundreds or thousands of receivers. There are, however, many situations where an app...
Karl Jeacle, Jon Crowcroft, Marinho P. Barcellos, ...
We present an approach to building multicast services at the network layer using unicast forwarding and two additional building blocks: (i) ephemeral state probes, i.e. extremely l...
Sharing the cost of multicast transmissions was studied in the past and two mechanisms, Marginal Cost and Shapley Value, were proposed. Compared to the Marginal Cost Mechanism the...
Delivering data to on-line game participants requires the game data to be "customized" in real-time to each participant's characteristics. Using multicast in such a...
Manuel M. Oliveira, Jon Crowcroft, Christophe Diot