When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The consolidation of the Internet Protocol as the foundation of most communications services has ...

IP Multicast is a bandwidth-efficient method for broadcasting data, in particular streaming audio and video, across a network. In this primer we’ll discuss how IP Multicasts works, its pros and cons, ...

Abstract: We propose TOMIMN as a novel overlay multicast approach, which exploits the support from IP multicast routers to construct a topology-aware overlay tree. Compared with most overlay multicast ...

IP multicast routing protocols allow a set of multicast routers to build or join multicast distribution trees when a terminal requests to receive traffic from a certain group. A distribution tree ...

In IP networks, packets are generally routed from a single source to a single receiver via routers. This type of transmission, known as IP unicast mode, has proven its effectiveness for point-to-point ...

Abstract: Though the combination of IP multicast and VPN technology has realized efficient point-to-multipoint delivery and solved large-scale inter-domain multicast currently, it suffers from ...

Several times over the years at Streaming Media I’ve been given free rein to indulge myself writing about my favorite of all topics in the streaming space: IP multicast. IP multicast offers ...

Multicast Routing The main goal of a router is to route packets. In other words: when it receives an IP packet it has to look at the destination address, check the routing table and figure out the ...