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Multicast Delivery Using Xcast in IPv6 Networks

Myung-Ki SHIN

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Due to the cost of multicast state management, multicast address allocation, inter-domain multicast routing of traditional IP multicast scheme, ASM leads to a search for other multicast schemes. This paper presents a new solution to the problems mentioned above based on IPv6. The proposed scheme provides an enhanced scheme supporting the strengths of SSM in basic Xcast. This is achieved by adding MLDv2 operations at recipient's side and a new control plane into existing Xcast. The proposed scheme does not only provide the transparency of traditional multicast schemes to sources and recipients, but it also enhances the routing efficiency in networks. Intermediate routers do not have to maintain multicast state, so that it results in a more efficient and scalable mechanism to deliver native multicast datagrams. Also, the seamless integration in Mobile IPv6 can support multicast efficiently for mobile nodes in IPv6 networks by avoiding tunnel avalanches and tunnel convergence. We've attempted to prove this alternative architecture by both simulation and implementation, respectively. Our approach cannot fundamentally perform for many large groups distributed widely as effectively as traditional multicast schemes. However, we believe that the resulting scheme is simple, efficient, robust, transparent, and to the extent possible, scalable in case that recipients are clustered in subnets.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E87-D No.12 pp.2548-2557
Publication Date
2004/12/01
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Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on New Technologies and their Applications of the Internet)
Category
Protocols, Applications and Services

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