Performance and resource cost comparisons for the CBT and PIM multicast routing protocols

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 304-314

  Billhartz, Tom ^b,e   Cain, J Bibb ^a,b   Farrey Goudreau, Ellen ^a,b   Fieg, Doug ^b   Batsell, Stephen Gordon ^a,c,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b National Center for Health Statistics   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

CBT; Multicast routing; PIM; Shared trees

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MINIMIZATION OF SWITCHING NETS; PACKET NETWORKS; PACKET SWITCHING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CORE BASED TREES (CBT); PROTOCOL INDEPENDENT MULTICASTING (PIM); SOFTWARE PACKAGE OPNET; SOURCE BASED TREE (SBT) ROUTING;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0031121995     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.564130     Document Type: Article

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