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....to implosion. When used together in MASHCast, the Casting Director and the Web Cache run in di erent processes on the same machine as the web browser. They use separate multicast addresses to communicate with peer components in the same MASHCast session across the IP Multicast Backbone (MBONE) [2]. For example, all Casting Directors in the same session might use the address 224.4.4.5 to communicate with each other and all Web Caches in the same session might use 224.4.4.10 to communicate with each other. The MASHCast application sits between the web browser and the network. MASHCast s ....

S. Casner. Frequently asked questions (FAQ) on the multicast backbone (MBone), Aug. 1994.

....the multicast group. This greatly reduces the bandwidth and processing load on the server and the network links closest to the server in direct proportion to the number of receivers. Unfortunately multicasting has been slow to catch on, except for the researchoriented Multicast Backbone (MBone) [1, 2]. There are a variety of reasons for the difficulties in widespread multicast deployment. One of largest current barriers is the difficulty in managing multicast traffic. In the Internet today, most of the data flow is reliable connection oriented point to point unicast using the Transmission ....

S. Casner, Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone (MBone). USC/ISI, December 1994. Available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/ mbone/faq.txt.

....several common symptoms of mis configured routers. A partial list includes packet loss, duplicate packets, and receiving packets from only some multicast groups. Currently the only general method to get multicast traffic across the vast Internet is via the MBone (Macedonia and Brutzman 1994; Casner, Kristol et al. 1997), a tunneled network similar in concept to the 6Bone. Even if two applications have every router between them configured for multicast, some of their dynamically reserved multicast addresses might not work. When a router is configured for multicast, it has a limit on how many multicast address ....

Casner, S., D. M. Kristol, et al. (1997). Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone (MBONE). http://www.sc.columbia.edu/~hgs/internet/mbonefaq. html.

....be executed whenever the trigger condition becomes true, and the status will change to inactive. The status will remain inactive until the rearm condition becomes true, whereupon the alarm will become active again and ready to be triggered. 5 Case Study: The MBone The MBone (Multicast Backbone)[10, 11] is a virtual network running over the Internet, and is used to broadcast multimedia traffic across the world. MBone nodes currently use IP tunnels to relay information to sites, which then use multicasting to deliver packets to users. Since March 1992, the MBone has grown from an initial 40 ....

Steve Casner. Frequently asked questions (FAQ) on the multicast backbone (MBONE), May 1993. Available as ftp://venera.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt.

....there is not a fundamental infrastructure problem, but protocol bugs and a lack of tools to alert network managers when there are problems. 1 Introduction The multicast service model[1] the one to many or many to many data delivery model, is transitioning from the Multicast Backbone(MBone)[2, 3] the original flat, virtual network topology to a hierarchical service model. Today, most router vendors support native multicast routing and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are starting to deploy multicast in their networks. In this hierarchical topology, ISPs run potentially different ....

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....5 lists the characteristics of MBone sessions most suitable for delivery via satellite links. Future work is presented in Section 6. 2 Overview of the Multicast Backbone (MBone) The main testing environment for global multicast communication has been the Multicast Backbone (MBone) The MBone[1] is an experimental virtual network created to provide the means for multicasting data to any number of connected hosts. In 1992, 20 sites connected together via a rudimentary multicast network and received audio transmissions from the March meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force ....

S. Casner, Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone(MBone). USC/ISI, December 1994. Available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt.

....into a group and then service them using one audio video stream multicast to all group members[1, 2] This solution was mainly proposed for cable TV based infrastructures which provide many channels, a large numbers of customers, and broadcast only communication. Within the Internet, the MBone[3] has been the focal point for developing multicast[4] and real time protocols[5] for the scalable delivery of multimedia streams. Like the IMJ, related efforts are looking at extending the use of the MBone beyond applications like interactive conferencing and program broadcasts[6, 7, 8, 9] An ....

S. Casner, Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone(MBone). USC/ISI, December 1994. Available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt.

....raises our next question. Why has multicast specific network management received so little attention The basic answer is that much of the effort being devoted to multicast is focused on developing multicast protocols, maintaining reasonable quality connectivity in the Multicast Backbone (MBone)[1], evolving the MBGP multicast infrastructure[2] and providing connectivity to users in end networks. As multicast begins to mature as an Internet service, more attention will be given on how to manage it. This statement alludes to the third and final question which asks, How long before there ....

....listen. Joining a group means that a user must be grafted into the multicast tree. The existing multicast routing protocols are capable of seamlessly providing both join (graft) and leave (prune) functions. For additional information about the MBone see the MBone list of Frequently Asked Questions[1], the unofficial MBone home page[17] and the IP Multicast Initiative (IPMI) home page[11] MBone freeware can be found either at the home pages of individual tools (see references throughout Section 3) or at mirror sites like Merit s home page[18] the University College London home page for PC ....

S. Casner, Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone(MBone). USC/ISI, December 1994. Available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt.

....over unicast can be many orders of magnitude. Despite the conceptual simplicity of multicast and its obvious benefits, its implementation is difficult. After almost a decade of research and implementation efforts, multicast has been deployed as the research oriented Multicast Backbone (MBone)[1, 2]. It is only beginning to be deployed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and used by serviceoriented companies. However, the growing popularity of real time audio and video traffic and the aforementioned network failures have created a compelling business justification for multicast. ....

S. Casner, Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone(MBone). USC/ISI, December 1994. Available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt.

....allocation. 2.2 Birth of the Multicast Backbone Interest in building a multicast capable Internet, motivated by Deering s work[4] began to achieve critical mass in the late 1980s. This work led to the creation of multicast in the Internet[6] and the creation of the Multicast Backbone (MBone)[7, 8]. In March 1992, the MBone carried its first worldwide event when 20 sites received audio from the meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 1] in San Diego. While the conferencing software itself represented a considerable accomplishment, the most significant achievement here was the ....

S. Casner, Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone(MBone). USC/ISI, December 1994. Available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt.

....5 lists the characteristics of MBone sessions most suitable for delivery via satellite links. Future work is presented in Section 6. 2 2 Overview of the Multicast Backbone (MBone) The main testing environment for global multicast communication has been the Multicast Backbone (MBone) The MBone[1] is an experimental virtual network created to provide the means for multicasting data to any number of connected hosts. In 1992, 20 sites connected together via a rudimentary multicast network and received audio transmissions from the March meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force ....

S. Casner, Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone(MBone). USC/ISI, December 1994. Available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt.

....into a group and then service them using one audio video stream multicast to all group members[1, 2] This solution was mainly proposed for cable TV based infrastructures which provide many channels, a large numbers of customers, and broadcast only communication. Within the Internet, the MBone[3] has been the focal point for developing multicast[4] and real time protocols[5] for the scalable delivery of multimedia streams. Like the IMJ, related efforts are looking at extending the use of the MBone beyond applications like interactive conferencing and program broadcasts[6, 7, 8, 9] ....

S. Casner, Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone(MBone). USC/ISI, December 1994. Available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt.

....requests for the same program into a group and then service them using one audio video stream multicast to all group members[1, 2] This solution was mainly proposed for cable TV based infrastructures which provided many channels and large numbers of customers. Within the Internet, the MBone[3] has been the focal point for developing multicast[4] and real time protocols[5] for the scalable delivery of multimedia streams beyond the scope of the initial IP protocol design specification. Like the IMJ, related efforts are looking at extending the use of the MBone beyond applications like ....

S. Casner, Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone(MBone). USC/ISI, December 1994. Available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt.

.... involved in replicating and routing the packets over each tunnel is reduced to an optimal value for real time connections [23] As for the bandwidth efficiency, the MBone design bandwidth is 500 kb s, and typical bandwidth requirements are 32 64 kb s for audio, and 128 kb s for video transfers [8]. 2.2 The multicast support in IPv6 The version of the IP currently in use is IPv4. The specification on the new generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6, was finalized by the IETF in 1995. The most important revision regarding multicasting that was included in IPv6 is that the ICMPv6 was made more ....

S. Casner. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone (Mbone), December 1994. (ftp://isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt).

....to transmit multicast packets between multicast routers in different routing domains. Before transmitting multicast packets through a tunnel, the source multicast router encapsulates them, so that they look like ordinary datagrams to intermediate routers and subnets. Take for example the MBONE [2], a semi permanent, hand configured virtual network that was originally engineered to carry audio and video transmissions from IETF meetings to destinations around the world. The MBONE consists of islands, such as multicast LANs, that can directly support multicast routing linked by tunnels. Like ....

Steve Casner. Frequently asked questions (FAQ) on the multicast backbone (MBONE). On-line documentation; available from venera. isi.edu:mbone/faq.txt, January 1993.

....architecture that I am suggesting, as IP multicast will become increasingly accessible. In fact, participants can transmit IP multicast packets within normal unicast packets to multicast routers, which then extracts the multicast packet and transmits it as appropriate. This is known as tunneling[Casner et al. 1994]. The proxy server can, though, perform some of the tasks of the server(i.e. used as an additional dial in point or help with reliability issues) It can, then, be considered an extension, but not a necessary component of the architecture. As such, I will deal with the following components, which ....

Casner, S., Kristol, D.M. and Schulzrinne, H., Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone(MBONE), http://www.mediadesign.co.at/newmedia/more/mbone-faq.html, April 1994.

....connections can be closed and resources used for receiving additional requests. Second, a significant portion of the Internet al..ready supports UDP multicast and this support is likely to expand in the future as wide scale multicast deployment efforts bear fruit. 1 . The Multicast Backbone (MBone)[7] has been successfully used for the wide area, scalable delivery of real time audio and video. 1 See the IP Multicast Initiative at www.ipmulticast.com The concept of cyclic, multicast delivery has been used in other contexts primarily to improve the scalability of a service. Examples of such ....

S. Casner, Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone(MBone). USC/ISI, December 1994. Available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt.

....to transmit multicast packets between multicast routers in different routing domains. Before transmitting multicast packets through a tunnel, the source multicast router encapsulates them, so that they look like ordinary datagrams to intermediate routers and subnets. Take for example the MBONE [3], a semi permanent, hand configured virtual network to carry audio and video transmissions from IETF meetings to destinations around the world. The MBONE consists of islands, such as multicast LANs, that can directly support multicast routing linked by tunnels. Like all lower level protocols, IP ....

Steve Casner. Frequently asked questions (FAQ) on the multicast backbone (MBONE). On-line documentation; available from venera. isi.edu:mbone/faq.txt, January 1993.

....0 100 200 300 400 500 600 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 Hold Time in Seconds Maximum SVC Cache Size for net.gate fddi.ip. net.gate fddi.tcp.net.gate fddi.udp.net.gate fddi.icmp.net.gate fddi.other.net.gate Figure 5: FDDI Backbone Pair Protocol Summary between MBONE routers [3]. While this is significant traffic, it is primarily between only three hosts and requires only two VC s. On the other hand, the rather small ICMP packet counts account for a fairly large number of VC s. This is because of the existence of several management systems in the network that ....

S. Casner. Frequently asked questions (FAQ) on the multicast backbone. file://- venera.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt, May 1993.

....but is effective in reducing server loading problems. It is being used, for example, by NCSA for their popular WWW server, and by Harvest Brokers [4] Another simple strategy is to configure routing topologies manually. While labor intensive, this approach is widely used, for example in the MBONE [6] and USENET [14] The most closely related work to the current paper is Hotz PhD thesis [12] in which he examines network triangulation as a possible approach to routing and server location. We use some of Hotz definitions and results in the current paper. Another very relevant effort is Danzig ....

Steve Casner. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the multicast backbone (MBONE), December 1994. Available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt.

....the multicast response connection needs to be built on top of a reliable multicast transport protocol. For this we use a protocol that we developed in our group [31] This protocol is, in turn, built around the IP multicast capabilities supported in the Internet Multicast Backbone (MBONE) [8]. In such an environment, the multicast group formed by the clients requesting the same page needs to be identified by a single multicast IP address and all the clients need to explicitly join that group. We discuss how this is accomplished shortly. When designing new features for an application ....

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