— Conventionally, most network protocols assume that the network entities who participate in the network activities will always behave as instructed. However, in practice, most n...
Weizhao Wang, Xiang-Yang Li, Zheng Sun, Yu Wang 00...
IP multicast was first proposed to improve the performance of applications that require group communications. Still, many years after its initial proposal, IP multicast is not wi...
—We propose a new multicast protocol called REUNITE. The key idea of REUNITE is to use recursive unicast trees to implement multicast service. REUNITE does not use class D IP add...
The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) approach will also bring benefits for multicast applications which need quality of service support. For instance, a highly reliable multicas...
Scalability in QoS-aware multicast deployment has become an important research dimension in recent years. In this paper we propose a new scheme named Differentiated QoS Multicast ...