Forwarding state scalability for multicast provisioning in IP networks

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 46-51

  Zhang, Baoxian ^a   Mouftah, Hussein T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET; MULTICASTING; ROUTERS; SURVEYS;

FORWARDING STATE SCALABILITY; MULTICAST EXTENSION TO OPEN SHORTEST PATH FIRST;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0038614655     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2003.1204747     Document Type: Article

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