Many applications can benefit from ubiquitous availability of multicast delivery. Unfortunately IP multicast coverage on the Internet is spotty at best, limited to individual camp...
Beichuan Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Sugih Jamin, Daniel M...
Abstract—While the advantages of multicast delivery over multiple unicast deliveries is undeniable, the deployment of the IP multicast protocol has been limited to “islands” ...
- Multicast potentially optimises bandwidth consumption and node resources, when several users simultaneously participate in a communication session. Nevertheless, contrary to the ...
— Multicast services can be provided either as a basic network service or as an application-layer service. Higher level multicast implementations often provide more sophisticated...
The expected number of transmissions is a very important parameter to evaluate the multicast performance. It is often used to estimate the bandwidth consumption of tree-based reli...