A case for end system multicast (keynote address)
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
ICNP '99 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Network Protocols
Multicast tree aggregation in large domains
NETWORKING'06 Proceedings of the 5th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems
Biclique completion problems for multicast network design
Discrete Optimization
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IP multicast suffers from scalability problem with the number of concurrently active multicast groups, while scalability of QoS multicast is even further from being solved. In this paper, we propose an approach to reduce multicast forwarding state and provision multicast with QoS guarantees. In our approach, multiple groups are forced to share a single delivery tree. We discuss the advantages and some implementation issues of our approach, and conclude that it is feasible and promising. We then describe how to use our approach to provision scalable QoS multicast. Finally, we define metrics to quantify state reduction and use simulations to show how our scheme achieves state reduction. These initial simulation results suggest that our method can reduce multicast state significantly.