Multimedia Multicast on the Internet

• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 376
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines multicast technology and will be a key text for undergraduate engineering students and master students in networks and telecoms. However, it will be equally useful for a wide range of professionals in this research field.

Multicast routing was introduced with the advent of multiparty applications (for example, videoconferencing on the Internet) and collaborative work (for example, distributed simulations). It is related to the concept of group communication, a technique introduced to reduce communication costs.

The various problems of multicast routing on the Internet are examined in detail. They include: group membership management, quality of service, reliability, safety, scalability and transport. Throughout the text, several protocols are introduced in order to analyze, compare and cover the various aspects of multicast routing.Content:
Chapter 1 Multicast Routing on the Internet (pages 1–50): Jean?Jacques Pansiot
Chapter 2 Hierarchical Multicast Protocols with Quality of Service (pages 51–92): Abderrahim Benslimane and Omar Moussaoui
Chapter 3 A Transport Protocol for Multimedia Multicast with Differentiated Quality of Service (pages 93–134): David Garduno, Ernesto Exposito and Michel Diaz
Chapter 4 Reliability in Group Communications: An Introduction (pages 135–155): Vincent Roca
Chapter 5 End?to?End Approaches for Reliable Communications (pages 157–179): Vincent Roca
Chapter 6 Router?Assist Based Reliable Multicast (pages 181–221): Promethee Spathis and Kim Thai
Chapter 7 Congestion Control in Multicast Communications (pages 223–246): CongDuc Pham and Moufida Maimour?Bouyoucef
Chapter 8 Approaches to Multicast Traffic Engineering (pages 247–270): Christian Jacquenet
Chapter 9 Towards New Protocols for Small Multicast Groups: Explicit Routing and Recursive Unicast (pages 271–305): Ali Boudani and Abderrahim Benslimane
Chapter 10 Secure Multicast Communications (pages 307–333): Melek Onen, Refik Molva and Alain Pannetrat
Chapter 11 Scalable Virtual Environments (pages 335–361): Walid Dabbous and Thierry Turletti