The PIM architecture for wide-area multicast routing
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
On routes and multicast trees in the Internet
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Real-time multicast tree visualization and monitoring
Software—Practice & Experience
Reverse path forwarding of broadcast packets
Communications of the ACM
On the topology of multicast trees
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Supporting multicast deployment efforts: a survey of tools for multicast monitoring
Journal of High Speed Networks
The use of end-to-end multicast measurements for characterizing internal network behavior
IEEE Communications Magazine
Reliable multicast transport protocol (RMTP)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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
Proxy location for minimizing delivery delay in HRM networks
Computer Communications
Load-balanced agent activation for value-added network services
Computer Communications
gTrace: simple mechanisms for monitoring of multicast sessions
NETWORKING'05 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP-TC6 international conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems
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The successful deployment of multicast in the Internet requires the availability of good network management solutions. Discovering multicast tree topologies is an important component of this task. Network managers can use topology information to monitor and debug potential multicast forwarding problems. In addition, the collected topology has several other uses, for example, in reliable multicast transport protocols, in multicast congestion control protocols, and in discovering network characteristics. We present a mechanism for discovering multicast tree topologies using the forwarding state in the network. We call our approach tracetree. First, we present the basic operation of tracetree. Then, we explore various issues related to its functionality (e.g., scalability, security, etc.). Next, we provide a detailed evaluation by comparing it to the currently available alternatives. Finally, we discuss a number of deployment issues. We believe that tracetree provides an efficient and scalable mechanism for discovering multicast tree topologies and therefore fills an important void in the area of multicast network management.