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Global Address Allocation for Wide Area IP-Multicasting

Global Address Allocation for Wide Area IP-Multicasting

Mihály Orosz
ISBN13: 9781605660141|ISBN10: 1605660140|EISBN13: 9781605660158
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch077
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Orosz, Mihály. "Global Address Allocation for Wide Area IP-Multicasting." Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition, edited by Margherita Pagani, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 574-580. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch077

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Orosz, M. (2009). Global Address Allocation for Wide Area IP-Multicasting. In M. Pagani (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition (pp. 574-580). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch077

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Orosz, Mihály. "Global Address Allocation for Wide Area IP-Multicasting." In Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition, edited by Margherita Pagani, 574-580. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch077

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Abstract

The IP-multicast transmission is the IP level answer for the growing one-to-many content spreading needs in multimedia applications (Hosszú, 2005). Nevertheless the address allocation and service discovery is a problematic field of this technology. Despite of the efficiency of the IP-multicast it has not been deployed in the whole Internet. Especially the global address allocation is a problematic part of the Internet-wide multicasting. This article addresses such problems in order to review the existing methods and the emerging research results. The IP-multicasting uses a shared IPv4 address range. In Internet-wide applications the dynamic allocation and reuse of the addresses is essential. Recent Internet-wide IP-multicasting protocols (MBGP/ MSDP/PIM-SM) have a scalability or complexity problem. The article introduces the existing solution for the wide-area multicasting and also proposes a novel method, which overcomes the limitations of the previous approaches.

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