Practical multicasting on a nonbroadcast subnetwork

Author

Walton, Simon ; Gerla, Mario

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

28-31 Oct 1997

Firstpage

251

Lastpage

258

Abstract

LAN multicast is now an essential service for users of the MBone and other IP multicast tools. Traditional IP multicast has travelled over two types of subnetwork: point-to-point links and subnetworks with inherent multicast capability, such as Ethernet and token ring. More recent LANs may be arbitrary mesh networks with no built-in, efficient, multicast capability. The authors describe a successful implementation of multicasting over a 640 Mbit/s, wormhole-routing LAN. The implementation is integrated with the wider-area multicast IP service. Consideration is given to practical issues such as interoperation with existing multicast routing protocols and software, and multicast-group setup latencies

Keywords

local area networks; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; IP multicast tools; LAN multicast; MBone; arbitrary mesh networks; interoperation; multicast routing protocols; multicast-group setup latencies; multicasting; nonbroadcast subnetwork; wider-area multicast IP service; wormhole-routing LAN; Computer science; Ethernet networks; Internet; Local area networks; Multicast protocols; Network topology; Propagation delay; Routing; Switches; Token networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Protocols, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1092-1648

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8061-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNP.1997.643725

Filename

643725