Revisiting IP multicast

  • Authors:
  • Sylvia Ratnasamy;Andrey Ermolinskiy;Scott Shenker

  • Affiliations:
  • Intel Research;U.C. Berkeley;U.C. Berkeley and ICSI

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper revisits a much explored topic in networking - the search for a simple yet fully-general multicast design. The many years of research into multicast routing have led to a generally pessimistic view that the complexity of multicast routing-and inter-domain multicast routing in particular - can only be overcome by restricting the service model (as in single-source) multicast. This paper proposes a new approach to implementing IP multicast that we hope leads to a reevaluation of this commonly held view.