Design and evaluation of a MARS model implementation

Author

Canosa, M. ; Corghi, A. ; De Marco, M. ; Rizzo, D. ; Trecordi, V.

Author_Institution

CEFRIEL, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

fYear

1998

fDate

26-29 May 1998

Firstpage

349

Lastpage

354

Abstract

Currently, the IETF standard for IP-ATM multicast address resolution is the Multicast Address Resolution Server (MARS). The MARS solution supports multicast either through “multicast meshes” of overlaid point-to-multipoint connections (VCMesh approach) or through Multicast Servers (MCS approach). Related work shows the performance of a multicast server implementation supporting just one layer-3 group and adopting an experimental UNI 3.x signalling stack. This paper describes the design and the implementation of the MARS architecture supporting multiple groups with the standard UNI 3.1 signalling protocol. Preliminary experimental tests evaluate the MARS scalability with a larger LIS and contrast the performance of the MCS approach against VCMesh supporting multiple groups

Keywords

Internet; asynchronous transfer mode; network servers; performance evaluation; telecommunication signalling; telecommunication standards; transport protocols; IETF standard; IP-ATM multicast address resolution; LIS; MARS architecture; MARS model implementation; MCS approach; Multicast Address Resolution Server; Multicast Servers; VCMesh approach; experimental tests; layer-3 group; multicast meshes; overlaid point-to-multipoint connections; performance; performance evaluation; standard UNI 3.1 signalling protocol; Electronic mail; Hardware; Mars; Multicast protocols; Scalability; Signal design; Signal resolution; Testing; Unicast; Virtual colonoscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ATM Workshop Proceedings, 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Fairfax, VA

ISSN

1098-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4874-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATM.1998.675195

Filename

675195