A New Approach to Multicast Communication in a Datagram Internetwork (1995)
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@TECHREPORT{Ballardie95anew,
author = {Anthony Ballardie},
title = {A New Approach to Multicast Communication in a Datagram Internetwork},
institution = {},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
Multicasting is a technique that enables a single packet transmission to reach one or more destinations or group. The primary benefits of a packet reaching multiple destinations from a single transmission are threefold: bandwidth minimization; the exploitation of parallelism in the network; the optimization of transmitter costs. In this thesis we investigate and analyse each of the different network layer multicast algorithms and protocols, looking in particular at their scalability, since multicast scalability was the primary motivator for this work. Our first and most significant contribution involves the presentation of a new multicast architecture and protocol, designed for best-effort, connectionless datagram networks such as the IP Internet. This new architecture typically offers considerably more favourable scaling characteristics than do existing multicast schemes. Our other most significant contribution is the security architecture that is integral in our new multicast proposa...
