Protocol design for scalable and adaptive multicast for group communications

Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 33-42

  Yang, De Nian ^a   Liao, Wanjiun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Multicast; Scalability; Xcast

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC GROUP MEMBERSHIP; END USERS; FORWARDING STATE; GROUP COMMUNICATIONS; GROUP SIZE; IN-NETWORK; IP MULTICAST; LARGE GROUPS; MULTICAST; MULTICAST COMMUNICATION; MULTICAST PACKET; MULTICAST ROUTING PROTOCOL; MULTICAST TREE; MULTICASTING PROTOCOLS; PROTOCOL DESIGN; SMALL GROUPS; UNICAST; XCAST;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MULTICASTING; NETWORK ROUTING; ROUTERS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SCALABILITY;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 67249109503     PISSN: 10921648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP.2008.4697022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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