Multicast routing in datagram internetworks and extended LANs
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Real-time multicast tree visualization and monitoring
Software—Practice & Experience
A taxonomy of DDoS attack and DDoS defense mechanisms
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Reliable multicast transport protocol (RMTP)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
The evolution of multicast: from the MBone to interdomain multicast to Internet2 deployment
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Deployment issues for the IP multicast service and architecture
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
IP multicast operational network management: design, challenges, and experiences
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Adaptive and intelligent path discovery on-demand for wireless networks using service composition
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Monitoring has become one of the key issues for the successful deployment of IP multicast in the Internet. During the last decade, several tools and systems have been developed to monitor several different characteristics of IP multicast. In this paper, we focus on one specific monitoring task: monitoring end-to-end multicast service availability in the inter-domain. This task is important to maintain service robustness between sources and receivers. Without this assurance, the multicast infrastructure may become disconnected and essentially unusable. In this paper, we first study existing multicast diagnostic tools (e.g. mping and mtrace) and present their shortcomings in verifying end-to-end multicast availability. Then, we propose new multicast diagnostic utilities (mcping and mcroute) that can be used to perform various monitoring and measurement functions including verification of end-to-end service availability. We present a sample case study demonstrating the utility of these primitives in detecting and classifying multicast reachability problems in the inter-domain. The proposed utilities introduce only a few modifications to the service architecture and, in exchange, provide the multicast community with effective means to monitor and measure multicast service characteristics.