Performance evaluation of Source-Specific Multicast routing protocols for IP networks

Author

Bartczak, T. ; Zwierzykowski, P.

Author_Institution

Commun. & Comput. Networks, Poznan Univ. of Technol., Poznan, Poland

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents the performance evaluation of two Source Specific Multicast (SSM) protocols for IP networks: Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) SSM and Lightweight PIM (LPIM). PIM SSM provides reliable, low latency IP Multicast transport services, but at the cost of high overhead in the signalling plane. The main design objective of LPIM is to improve PIM SSM scalability and to provide global deployment capabilities. Lightweight PIM significantly reduces the volume of generated signalling messages, the number of active timers and the total overhead related to timers handling. The protocol is also capable of supporting, when necessary, Internet-wide transmissions that rely on unicast tunnelling.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; multicast protocols; performance evaluation; routing protocols; telecommunication signalling; IP multicast transport services; IP networks; Internet-wide transmissions; LPIM; PIM SSM routing protocols; lightweight protocol independent multicast; performance evaluation; protocol independent multicast routing protocol; signalling messages; signalling plane; source-specific multicast routing protocols; unicast tunnelling; IP networks; Performance evaluation; Receivers; Routing protocols; Switches; Unicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2012 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Poznan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1472-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSNDSP.2012.6292693

Filename

6292693