Multicast routing for multimedia communication
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Incremental distributed synchronous algorithm for minimum spanning trees
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
Communications of the ACM
An architecture for wide-area multicast routing
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Multicast routing in internetworks and extended LANs
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special twenty-fifth anniversary issue. Highlights from 25 years of the Computer Communication Review
Hierarchical distance-vector multicast routing for the MBone
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Sharing the “cost” of multicast trees: an axiomatic analysis
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Receiver-driven layered multicast
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Building shared trees using a one-to-many joining mechanism
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Policy tree multicast routing: an extension to sparse mode source tree delivery
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
On routes and multicast trees in the Internet
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
The MASC/BGMP architecture for inter-domain multicast routing
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
QoSMIC: quality of service sensitive multicast Internet protocol
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Approximation algorithms for directed Steiner problems
Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
Scaling of multicast trees: comments on the Chuang-Sirbu scaling law
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Sharing the cost of muliticast transmissions (preliminary version)
STOC '00 Proceedings of the thirty-second annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Hop by hop multicast routing protocol
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
On the efficiency of multicast
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Centralized Multicast
Core selection methods for multicast routing
ICCCN '95 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
Multicast routing for real-time communication of high-speed networks
Multicast routing for real-time communication of high-speed networks
MAMCRA: a constrained-based multicast routing algorithm
Computer Communications
Multipoint communication: a survey of protocols, functions, and mechanisms
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Distributed center-location algorithms
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A protocol for scalable loop-free multicast routing
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Multicast routing with end-to-end delay and delay variation constraints
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Destination-driven routing for low-cost multicast
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
ARIES: a rearrangeable inexpensive edge-based on-line Steiner algorithm
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
The evolution of multicast: from the MBone to interdomain multicast to Internet2 deployment
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Multicast routing and its QoS extension: problems, algorithms, and protocols
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Deployment issues for the IP multicast service and architecture
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Multicast routing algorithms and protocols: a tutorial
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
A survey of combinatorial optimization problems in multicast routing
Computers and Operations Research
Game state and event distribution using proxy technology and application layer multicast
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
A flows-based QoS routing protocol for multicast communication networks
International Journal of Computers and Applications
Multi-path routing scheme for non-interactive multicast communications
International Journal of Network Management
A Service-Centric Multicast Architecture and Routing Protocol
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Multicast algorithms in service overlay networks
Computer Communications
Fault-tolerant framework for load balancing system
SEPADS'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems
QoS multicast routing using Explore Best Path
Computer Communications
COMSNETS'10 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on COMmunication systems and NETworks
Journal of Global Optimization
Unicast versus multicast for live TV delivery in networks with tree topology
WWIC'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
BloomCasting: security in bloom filter based multicast
NordSec'10 Proceedings of the 15th Nordic conference on Information Security Technology for Applications
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In the age of multimedia and high-speed networks, multicast is one of the mechanisms by which the power of the Internet can be further harnessed in an efficient manner. When more than one receiver is interested in receiving a transmission from a single or a set of senders, multicast is the most efficient and viable mechanism. In the protocol stack of the network, multicast is best implemented in the network layer in the form of a multicast routing protocol to select the best path for the transmission. The other layers of the protocol stack provide additional features for multicast.This paper deals with how multicasting is implemented in the Internet (IPv4). With emphasis on the implementation of multicast at the network layer the implementation of additional features for multicast at the other layers of the protocol stack are presented. The network layer is concerned with routing of the data in an efficient manner with minimal duplication of data to the various receivers. The features of the routing protocols that have been proposed for best effort as well as QoS-based multicast are analyzed. Some of the issues and open problems related to multicast implementation and deployment are discussed along with an overview on how multicast service is deployed in some of the existing backbone networks.