Authors
Yang-hua Chu, Sanjay G Rao, Hui Zhang
Publication date
2000/6/1
Journal
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Volume
28
Issue
1
Pages
1-12
Publisher
ACM
Description
The conventional wisdom has been that IP is the natural protocol layer for implementing multicast related functionality. However, ten years after its initial proposal, IP Multicast is still plagued with concerns pertaining to scalability, network management, deployment and support for higher layer functionality such as error, flow and congestion control. In this paper, we explore an alternative architecture for small and sparse groups, where end systems implement all multicast related functionality including membership management and packet replication. We call such a scheme End System Multicast. This shifting of multicast support from routers to end systems has the potential to address most problems associated with IP Multicast. However, the key concern is the performance penalty associated with such a model. In particular, End System Multicast introduces duplicate packets on physical links and incurs larger end-to …
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Y Chu, SG Rao, H Zhang - ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 2000
Y hua Chu, SG Rao, H Zhang - SIGMETRICS'00: Proceedings of the 2000 ACM …