Application of IP multicast in embedded systems with OpenWRT

The effectiveness of multicast technology can significantly reduce network load, especially in networks that support multimedia transmission. This technique has reported number of implementations due to increasing interest in audiovisual technology. However, multicast is still a mystery for many programmers, network administrators and ordinary users who could make it more popular, and utilize this promising technique of transmission. This paper presents the configuration of IP multicasting on end-user network device (embedded system) with an application of OpenWRT Linux distribution. Some efficiency aspects were also discussed in this paper.