Multicast routing in datagram internetworks and extended LANs
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A tool for debugging Internet multicast routing
CSC '94 Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM computer science conference on Scaling up : meeting the challenge of complexity in real-world computing applications: meeting the challenge of complexity in real-world computing applications
Real-time multicast tree visualization and monitoring
Software—Practice & Experience
A hierarchical multicast monitoring scheme
COMM '00 Proceedings of NGC 2000 on Networked group communication
An Architecture for Inter-Domain Troubleshooting
IC3N '97 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
Fault Detection in Routing Protocols
ICNP '99 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Network Protocols
Monitoring reachability in the global multicast infrastructure
ICNP '00 Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Network Protocols
Visualizing the global topology of the MBone
INFOVIS '96 Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (INFOVIS '96)
Multicast group behavior in the Internet's multicast backbone (MBone)
IEEE Communications Magazine
Multicast transport protocols: a survey and taxonomy
IEEE Communications Magazine
An architecture for large scale Internet measurement
IEEE Communications Magazine
The use of end-to-end multicast measurements for characterizing internal network behavior
IEEE Communications Magazine
Toward integrating IP multicasting in internet network management protocols
Computer Communications
The evolution of multicast: from the MBone to interdomain multicast to Internet2 deployment
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Remote Multicast Monitoring Using the RTP MIB
MMNS '02 Proceedings of the 5th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services: Management of Multimedia on the Internet
Tracetree: a scalable mechanism to discover multicast tree topologies in the internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Application layer reachability monitoring for IP multicast
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
Application layer reachability monitoring for IP multicast
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Simple active mechanisms for measuring and monitoring service level topologies
IWAN'04 Proceedings of the 6th IFIP TC6 international working conference on Active networks
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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As the Internet is expected to better support multimedia applications, new services will need to be deployed. An example of one of these next-generation services is multicast communication, the one-to-many delivery of data. Over the last ten years, multicast research as well as deployment efforts have both been major areas of interest. In order to bridge the gap between the initial deployment experiments and the availability of multicast as a robust network service, there needs to be a full complement of multicast monitoring tools. In this paper we first survey the debugging, modeling, and management tools that have evolved along side the Internet's multicast infrastructure. Through this survey, we have observed important generalizations in three areas: (1) the challenges unique to monitoring multicast, (2) a methodology common to many multicast monitoring tools/systems, and (3) a set of considerations important to the development of new tools/systems. Using these generalizations we present two of our efforts to evaluate multicast reachability in the Internet. We also use these generalizations to evaluate some of the more recent efforts to develop large-scale management platforms.