Multisites Coordination in Shared Multicast Trees

Abstract

The majority of today's Internet applications rely on point-to-point transmission. In recent years, however, multicast transmission has become the foundation for such applications as multiparty video conferencing, distributed interactive simulations, and collaborative systems. The authors describe a novel protocol to coordinate multipoint groupwork in the IP-multicast framework. The protocol supports Internet-wide coordination for large and highly interactive groupwork, relying on transmission of coordination directives between group members across a shared end-to-end multicast tree. They also describe how addressing extensions to IP multicast can be put to use for their multisite coordination mechanism.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA459239

Entities

People

  • H-p. Dommel
  • J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

Organizations

  • University of California, Santa Cruz

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Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Addressing
  • Computer Networks
  • Continuum Mechanics
  • Directories
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Information Operations
  • Internet
  • Intranet
  • Local Area Networks
  • Media
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Routing Protocols
  • Time Intervals
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computer Networking