DocumentCode
3324371
Title
Extensions to OSPF for tunnel multicasting
Author
Zhang, Baoxian ; Mouftah, H.T.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Canada
Volume
3
fYear
2002
fDate
17-21 Nov. 2002
Firstpage
2644
Abstract
We extend an existing multicast routing protocol, multicast extension to OSPF (MOSPF), to achieve tunnel multicasting. The extension is as follows. Tunneling is introduced for supporting tunnel multicasting, which aims at reducing the protocol overhead associated with MOSPF. Simulation results show that the extension can reduce protocol overhead significantly without affecting the per-destination shortest path characteristics of a resulting tree or introducing any extra control overhead.
Keywords
digital simulation; multicast protocols; routing protocols; MOSPF; control overhead; multicast extension to OSPF; multicast routing protocol; per-destination shortest path characteristics; protocol overhead reduction; simulation results; tunnel multicasting; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Costs; Internet; Multicast algorithms; Multicast protocols; Payloads; Routing protocols; Tunneling; Unicast;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002. GLOBECOM '02. IEEE
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7632-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/GLOCOM.2002.1189109
Filename
1189109
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