An Integrated Two-Tier Multicast-Agent Architecture for All-IP Multicast Transport Services

Current group communication applications need to overcome inter-domain and heterogeneous multicast transport challenges. All-IP multicast over Internet is proposed to achieve the efficiency and transparency on IP multicast packet delivery not only for native IP multicast domains, but also for non-IP...

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Main Authors: Chih-Chao Wen, Chi-Ju Chiu, Cheng-Shong Wu, Hui-Kai Su, Yuan-Sun Chu
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
all-IP multicast
heterogeneous multicast
Heuristic algorithms
inter-domain multicast
Internet
IP networks
Media
multicast agent
Relays
Servers
Unicast
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Summary:Current group communication applications need to overcome inter-domain and heterogeneous multicast transport challenges. All-IP multicast over Internet is proposed to achieve the efficiency and transparency on IP multicast packet delivery not only for native IP multicast domains, but also for non-IP multicast supported domains. To guarantee the efficient IP multicast packet delivery over heterogeneous networks, therefore application level multicast (ALM) and overlay multicast (OM) were introduced for the connectivity of inter-domain coordination and local heterogeneous access. In this paper, we propose two-tier multicast agent (MA) mechanism to integrate ALM with overlay tunnel connections to inter-domain multicast and network level connections to local heterogeneous multicast access. In our experimental results, the proposed MA mechanism can achieve all-IP multicast transport services with multicast packet transmission over inter-domain and heterogeneous local wired/wireless access networks.
DOI:10.1109/BWCCA.2011.85