An architecture for wide-area multicast routing.

Existing multicast routing mechanisms were intended for use within regions where a group is widely represented or bandwidth is universally plentiful. When group members, and senders to those group members, are distributed sparsely across a wide area, these schemes are not efficient; data packets or...

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Published in:	Computer communication review. 24, 4 (1994).
Main Author:	Deering, Stephen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Computer systems organization. Computer communication networks. Network architecture and design. Packet switching networks. Theory of computation. Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity. Nonnumerical algorithms and problems. Routing and layout. Algorithms. Measurement. Performance.