A protocol for scalable loop-free multicast routing

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 316-331

  Parsa, Mehrdad ^b,c   Garcia Luna Aceves, J J ^a,b,d,e,f,g  

^a IEEE

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^g SRI

Author keywords

Loop freedom; Multicast routing

Indexed keywords

MINIMIZATION OF SWITCHING NETS; PACKET NETWORKS; PACKET SWITCHING; TELECONFERENCING; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

INTERNET; LOOP FREEDOM; MULTICAST INTERNET PROTOCOL (MIP); MULTICAST ROUTING;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0031116944     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.564131     Document Type: Article

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