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...
Abstract-- The efficacy of end-to-end multicast transport protocols depends critically upon their ability to scale efficiently to a large number of receivers. Several research mult...
In the paper, we consider a preference heterogeneity problem in large-scale multicast applications. Abundant content, data type and diverse members' interests naturally lead ...
We analyze the maximum throughput that known classes of reliable multicast transport protocols can attain. A new taxonomy of reliable multicast transport protocols is introduced ba...
IP multicast has fueled an assortment of large-scale applications over the Internet ranging from interactive video conferencing to whiteboards to video recording on-demand systems...