Distributed multicast address management in the global Internet.

We describe a distributed architecture for managing multicast addresses in the global Internet. A multicast address space partitioning scheme is proposed, based on the unicast host address and a per-host address management entity. By noting that port numbers are an integral part of end-to-end multic...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 13, 8 (1995).
Main Author:	Pejhan, S.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Address acquisition delay. Address management entities load. Blocking probability. Communications overhead. Consistency. Control traffic. Distributed multicast address management. Dynamic multicast address management. End-to-end multicast addressing. Failure robustness. Global Internet. Multicast address space partitioning. Per-host address management entity. Port resolution. Processing overhead. Random allocation strategy. Unicast host address.