A Primer of Multicast Routing

• Main Author: Rosenberg, Eric (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

Whereas unicast routing determines a path from one source node to one destination node, multicast routing determines a path from one source to many destinations, or from many sources to many destinations. We survey multicast routing methods for when the set of destinations is static, and for when it...

Table of Contents:

• What is Multicast Routing?
• Basic Concepts in Tree Based Methods
• Dynamic Routing Methods
• Other Multicast Routing Methods
• Inter-domain and Two-level Multicast
• Aggregate Multicast Trees
• Multicast Virtual Private Networks
• References.