Good paper on multicast deployment

Robert Olson olson at mcs.anl.gov
Sat Nov 25 10:02:55 CST 2000


good reading:

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/almeroth00evolution.html

 >Abstract: Without a doubt, multicast communication---the one-to-many or
 >many-to-many delivery of data---has
 >become a hot topic. It is of interest in the research community, among
 >standards groups, and to network
 >service providers. For all the attention multicast has received, there are
 >still issues that have not been completely
 >resolved. One result is that protocols are still evolving and some standards
 >are not yet finished. From a deployment perspective, the lack of
 >standards has slowed progress, but efforts to deploy multicast as an
 >experimental service are in fact gaining momentum. The question now is
 >how long it will be before multicast becomes a true Internet service. The
 >goal of this paper is to describe the past, present, and future of
 >multicast. Starting with the Multicast Backbone...

--bob



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